Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: an Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020). Pages xi + 389. £20 hardback.

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[ ]her discussion of illegitimacy and family size would have been strengthened by looking at the work of the Fertility Atlas Project at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure: https://www campop geog cam ac uk/research/projects/victorianfertilitydecline/ Griffin's findings regarding the number of families without a father or mother, might inform an analysis of family structures based on the household variables in the digitised Victorian censuses found in the I-CeM dataset: https://icem data-archive ac uk/ [ ]one should draw attention to the wonderful photographs that are used throughout the text to illustrate the points being made