Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

by Gertrude Himmelfarb · 1 review · 1991

Reviewed by	Journal	Date	Access
Alan Ryan	The New York Review of Books	1991-11-07	—

Ethics & Moral Philosophy History of Philosophy

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