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Revisiting Robert Tressell’s Mugsborough : new perspectives on The ragged trousered philanthropists / [edited by] Julie Cairnie and Marion Walls.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60497-551-2 (alk. paper)
1. Tressell, Robert, 1870–1911. Ragged trousered philanthropists.
2. Working class in literature.
3. Socialism in literature.
4. Capitalism in literature. I. Cairnie, Julie.
II. Walls, Marion.
III. Title.
PR5671.T85R336 2008
823’.912—dc22
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The cover photograph is called Clarion Van, 1914 and is courtesy of TUC Library Collections. Other photographs in this book were reproducedwith the kind permission of the Robert Tressell Family Papers and TUC Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataRevisiting Robert Tressell’s Mugsborough : new perspectives on The ragged trousered philanthropists / [edited by] Julie Cairnie and Marion Walls.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60497-551-2 (alk. paper)
1. Tressell, Robert, 1870–1911. Ragged trousered philanthropists.
2. Working class in literature.
3. Socialism in literature.
4. Capitalism in literature. I. Cairnie, Julie.
II. Walls, Marion.
III. Title.
PR5671.T85R336 2008
823’.912—dc22
2008025556