Put Yourself in His Place: A Story of the Yorkshire Trades
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young engineer in a Yorkshire cutlery town introduces machinery, and the trade unions warn him, then blow up his workshop — while a doctor's daughter, a flooded reservoir and an old crime run alongside. Reade campaigned in fiction against private asylums, brutal prisons and union violence, and researched this in Sheffield from the actual outrages; the dam-burst at the end is taken from the Sheffield flood, which killed two hundred and forty people. Fifty-four plates of working life and industry, from Menzel's bearded labourer and blacksmith's shop to Sisley's Argenteuil square, give the novel's mills and forges their visual counterpart.
A young engineer in a Yorkshire cutlery town introduces machinery, and the trade unions warn him, then blow up his workshop — while a doctor's daughter, a flooded reservoir and an old crime run alongside. Reade campaigned in fiction against private asylums, brutal prisons and union violence, and ...
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Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and dramatist who was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His works include the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth and the social-problem novels Put Yourself in His Place and A Terrible Temptation.
Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and dramatist who was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His works include the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth and the social-problem novels Put Yourself in His Place and A Terrible Temptation.
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