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What did working-class men and women read during the Industrial Revolution? The Industrial Revolution that came about in the early and mid-nineteenth century, affected many areas of English intellectual and cultural life; it changed the nature of many of the current disciplines, and brought forward the existence of new ones. Literature was an issue that was highly subjected to industrialism. According to Catherine Gallagher, narrative fiction, especially novels, underwent changes whenever they became a part of the discourse over industrialism. Concurrently, the urban and industrial working classes had a huge impact in Victorian fiction; the different types of working-class men and women, along with their working and living environments were used to portray the lives of the working class. During the nineteenth century, a significant number of novelists attempted to present the working class in fiction. According to Thackeray in 1838, the working-class communities in particular towns had formed their own...

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