Excerpt from Prisons and Prisoners
In the middle of the 18th century the people of England were perhaps, socially, at their lowest point. It is not only from an ecclesiastical point of view that we might describe the Georgian period as the Dark Ages: 1819, when the Queen was born, was for many practical purposes still the middle of the 18th century so far as social progress was concerned. Nay, we may even say the same with regard to 1837, when she came to the throne. England at that time was unknown save to a very few English people. Not a single railway had been completed.
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