Thomas Wright (social commentator)
Thomas Wright (12 April 1839 – 19 February 1909) was an English social commentator.[1]
Wright's essays on social commentary were published in three volumes, Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes (1867), The Great Unwashed (1868), and Our New Masters (1873).[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Alastair J. Reid, ‘Wright, Thomas (1839–1909)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2006, accessed 18 April 2010.
Further reading
- A. J. Reid, ‘Intelligent artisans and aristocrats of labour: the essays of Thomas Wright’, in J. Winter (ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling (Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 171–86.
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12 April 1839 |
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19 February 1909 |
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