Daily Archives: January 24, 2013

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”  Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Charles Dickens was a fierce critic of poverty and the social stratification endemic within Victorian society.  Even today, we still encounter the idea of keeping up with aContinue reading “Happiness in the Age of Victoria”