[Illustrations of Political Economy] Homes Abroad, or Frank and Ellen Castle; A Tale for the People
by (Economic Novel) Martineau, Harriet
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Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1843. Appeared in the United States the same year as the London edition. Pp. 172. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Original purple cloth, stamped in blind, title decorated and lettered in gilt. Some staining of lower portion of binding and gutter and corners of text, some rubbing, spine faded, some rubbing of cloth, endpaper stained from bookplate, light browning of text, else very good. Appeared in the United States the same year as the London edition. Pp. 172. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Van Dieman's Land: Emigration & Penal Colonization. Martineau's "Illustrations of Political Economy" series were novels to instruct specific economic principles. In "Homes Abroad" the summary of Principles is printed at the back. This novel deals with penal colonization, voluntary emigration and home-colonization. Brother and sister decide to emigrate with their parents to Van Dieman's Land, travelling through the indenture program and a government program for sending potential brides, following two brothers who were sent as convicts to the penal colony. The home colonization scheme succeeded in allaying but not solving the population problems, the penal colonization brought and infiltrated the society with crime with those who did not wish to reform, making difficulties for those who did and also showing that crime did pay (one of the unrepentant criminal brothers taking the house next to the hardworking hero being the example here.) Her series publiscation of this work was begun in February 1832 and continued until February 1834 and it was in 25 numbers. They were immediately popular. Kress C3227-8 for the 1832-3 Boston and London series of novels
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- Title
- [Illustrations of Political Economy] Homes Abroad, or Frank and Ellen Castle; A Tale for the People
- Author
- (Economic Novel) Martineau, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Pp. 172. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original purple cloth, stamped in blind, title decorated and lettered in gilt. Some staining of lower portion of binding and gut
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- Edition
- Appeared in the United States the same year as the London editio
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- S. Andrus and Son
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1843
- Keywords
- Economics
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