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The English Middle Class (1854)
First Published: in New York Tribune, 1 August 1854
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The present splendid brotherhood of fiction-writers in England, whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together, have described every section of the middle class from the âhighly genteelâ annuitant and fundholder who looks upon all sorts of business as vulgar, to the little shopkeeper and lawyerâs clerk. And how have Dickens and Thackeray, Miss BrontĂŤ and Mrs. Gaskell painted them? As full of presumption, affectation, petty tyranny and ignorance; and the civilised world have confirmed their verdict with the damning epigram that it has fixed to this class that âthey are servile to those above, and tyrannical to those beneath them.â