In 1983, Himmelfarb published The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age, and in 1991 the sequel Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians, arguing that, instead of imposing unregulated Dickensian institutions and dark satanic … Continue reading (New Criterion) Keith Windschuttle–Gertrude Himmelfarb & the Enlightenment