Transcriber's Notes
The following changes have been made to the text as printed:
- Footnotes have been placed close to their respective markers and renumbered
sequentially within each chapter.
- Page 5: When, however we come to the third constituent
... A comma has
been inserted after however. [There is extra space in the line as printed, where
a comma would be expected.]
- Page 32 (footnote): Fom changed to From.
- Page 50: Changed ’ to ” after respect. [Quote opens with “]
- Page 54: Changed some unmeaning task, work die unfreed, to
... taskwork,
die unfreed. [The reference is to the poem A Summer Night by Matthew Arnold:
Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, ...]
- Page 95 (bottom line): Henrietta A. Barnett changed to Henrietta O.
Barnett.
- Page 137: labouror changed to labourer. [The spelling has been
checked in a facsimile (not e-text) of the 1834 document being quoted]
- Page 141: satifies changed to satisfies.
- Page 156: The corresponding mortality ... it between two and three times
changed to is between ...
- Page 205: Removed quote mark before Mr. Williams said:
- Page 212: motthering changed to mothering.
- Page 230: Footnote index [1] inserted in front of From “The Contemporary
Review”.
- Page 249: between £160 and £200 per annum changed to between £160 and
£700. [Figures verified from the work cited: Riches and Poverty, by E. Chiozza Money
(1905), p. 42.]
- Page 271: Inserted comma after Why in Why what would the men have to lean
against?
- Page 328: 5·300 changed to 5,300.
- Page 332 (bottom line): Samuel H. Barnett changed to Samuel A.
Barnett.
The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:
- Inconsistent hyphenations, spellings and punctuation have been retained as printed,
where not definitely erroneous. [These are discrete essays, written at different times
by two hands and reprinted from a range of publications.]
- In the children’s writings quoted in Chapter 4, all non-standard spelling,
punctuation and grammar have been retained as printed.
- Table of contents: Chapter 33 begins on page 327, not 320 as printed. Chapter 34
begins on page 333, not 327. The entries have not been changed, but in this electronic version
the page numbers are correctly linked to the head of the chapters.