Histories of the English workhouse and its satellite institutions have concentrated on legal change, institutional administration, and moments of shock or scandal, generally without considering the place of these institutions, established through the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, in the emotional life course of poor inmates. This article uses working-class autobiographies to examine the register of emotional responses to workhouses and associated Poor Law institutions, and the range of narrative voices open to authors who recalled institutional residence. It also gives close attention to two lengthy narratives of workhouse district schools and highlights their significance in comparison to the authors’ family backgrounds and the representation of each writer in the wider historical record. It suggests that a new affective chronology of the workhouse is needed to accommodate room for disparity between the aspiration of systematic poor relief and the reality of individual experience within local interpretations of the law.

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工人阶级眼中的济贫法制度：自传、情感和家庭背景，1834-1914 年

英国济贫院及其附属机构的历史集中在法律变革、机构管理以及震惊或丑闻的时刻，一般不考虑这些机构在 1834 年的《济贫法修正案》中建立的在情感生活过程中的位置。可怜的犯人。本文使用工人阶级的自传来检查对济贫院和相关济贫法机构的情绪反应记录，以及对回忆机构住所的作者开放的叙事声音范围。它还密切关注济贫区学校的两个冗长叙述，并强调它们与作者的家庭背景和每个作家在更广泛的历史记录中的代表性相比的重要性。