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How far were changing attitudes towards the poor between 1834 - 1900 due to the work of individuals? In the first half of the Nineteenth century, the attitudes towards the poor were dominated by three major ideas. Firstly, that poverty was the fault of the poor. Secondly that the poor could help themselves, and finally, that it was no business of the government to hand out relief to help the poor. However, these three old ideas began to be ousted by three other ideas that poverty was not the fault of the poor, society had let the poor down, and that the government should help provide relief. A number of factors; the work of individual writers - Mayhew, Booth and Rowntree, and the work of artists, and novelists such as Dickens and Doré brought about these changes of ideas. Other factors such as the growth of the electorate, the decline of...

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