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Without it, pushing through a reform agenda that was at odds with the ideological prejudices of most of his own party and which Mr Brown, as chancellor in control of the purse strings, was determined to undermine (for personal as much as political reasons) was uphill work.
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At the same time Spence became employed as a journalist on The Register, but not initially with her own byline. Spence's second novel Tender and True was published in 1856, and to her delight went through a second and third printing, though she never received a penny more than the initial twenty pounds. Then followed her third novel, published in Australia as Uphill Work and in England as Mr Hogarth's Will, published in 1861 and several more though some were unpublished in her lifetime including Gathered In (unpublished until 1977) and Hand fasted (unpublished until 1984). In 1888 she published A Week In the Future, a tour-tract of the utopia she imagined a century in the future might bring; it was one of the precursors of Edward Bellamy's 1889 Looking Backward.
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In the towns and in the country, labourers had to live in hovels and mud-wall cabins which bred death and disease, huddled together in indiscriminate wretchedness, landless and starving, the last word in pitiful rags and bare bones. The grant of Local Government and the extension of the franchise, enabled the labourers to eventually take a mighty stride in the assertion of their independent claims.Sheehan, D. D.: p. 176 Sheehan recorded that > : “Those of us who had taken up the labourer’s cause . . . went our way > building up branches, extending knowledge of the labourers’ claims, > educating these humble folk into a sense of their civic rights and citizen > responsibilities . . . It was all desperate hard, uphill work, with little > to encourage and no reward beyond the consciousness that one was reaching > out a helping hand to the most neglected, despised and unregarded class in > the community” Sheehan, D. D.: p.
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