A review by avethehuman
Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 by Ellen Ross

5.0

It's been YEARS since I read this, and assigned it in my Victorian Britain class, and in re-reading remembered how much I love this book and why. It's SO OLD, but still so good. Accessible to an undergrad audience, full of horrifying and fascinating and wonderful individual stories, and chock full of quantitative data. Great way to introduce the Victorian working class to my students. Yay!