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“One of the very few valid criticisms of Queen Victoria is that she was not sufficiently concerned with improvement of the conditions in which a great mass of her subjects passed their lives. She lived through an age of profound social change, but neither public health, nor housing, nor the education of her people, nor their representation, engaged much of her time.”

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Book:Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
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Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort

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