Arthur James Balfour -- Samuel Bamford -- Sabine Baring-Gould -- Sir Walter Besant -- William Booth -- James Bryce, Viscount Bryce -- Josephine Elizabeth Butler -- Sir George Tomkyns Chesney -- Frances Power Cobbe -- John Doherty -- Ebenezer Elliott -- Havelock Ellis -- Millicent Garrett Fawcett -- Katharine Bruce Glasier -- Thomas Hill Green -- Frederic Harrison -- Ellice Hopkins -- Charles Kingsley -- Samuel Lover -- Harriet Martineau -- Henry Mayhew -- John Stuart Mill -- Hugh Miller -- John Morley -- Frederic W.H. Myers -- Francis William Newman -- Margaret Oliphant -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- John Ruskin -- Olive Schreiner -- Bernard Shaw -- Edith Jemima Simcox -- Sir Leslie Stephen -- Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith) -- Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Samuel Warren -- Beatrice Webb -- Sidney Webb -- Richard Whately -- Oscar Wilde
Summary
Essays on British reform writers during a time when Britain struggled to establish a new and stable political, social and economic order. Includes major writers as well as others known mainly as sociopolitical thinkers, reformers, and socialists as well as reform oriented critics and educators
