CLEP Western Civ II

Answer: E - The Conservatives were influenced by the publication of Edwin Chadwick's On the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain in 1842. Because Chadwick was a public-health reformer, his work was highly influential, more so than novelists like Charles Dickens, who focused on working-class life among other themes. Chadwick’s work spurred reform legislation for decades after its publication.