Need help finding info on British class system before industrial revolution

[Narnia]

I need to find a non-wikipedia source of information on the structure of the British Class System right before the industrial revolution. I'm doing a school report on how Pride a Prejudice reflects the British class system of the time. The book takes place right about the time of the industrial revolution so the point of view I'm using for my report is that it only showed part of the class system because that system was rapidly being changed by the industrial revolution. I'm then going to explain how the class system was before the revolution and how it was changed by the revolution. I'm having a very hard time finding a resource that goes into very much detail about the structure of the pre-industrial-revolution British class system. Thanks a LOT!
PS: it needs to be a resource I can access for free online. Thanks

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Clicking on the Wikipedia citations, references, and links is a good way to start.

 

[Narnia]

Clicking on the Wikipedia citations, references, and links is a good way to start.

I checked there and didn't find much. But thanks for the suggestion. Any other ideas?
Thanks

 

[.Shane.]

Moderator Action: Better suited to this forum. Good luck!

 

[Narnia]

Moderator Action: Better suited to this forum. Good luck!

Thanks, I didn't think of that. Sorry for putting it in the wrong forum

 

[Dachs]

Do you have access to JSTOR through your school?

 

[Narnia]

Do you have access to JSTOR through your school?

No, sorry
what is it?

 

[Dachs]

It's a database of academic journal articles that probably would've had something useful.

 

[Karalysia]

JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/

1. Go to library
2. Search library database with key terms
3. Find books
4. ???????
5. Profit

 

[Traitorfish]

JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/

1. Go to library
2. Search library database with key terms
3. Find books
4. ???????
5. Profit

Profit? In academia? Oh, you poor naive thing.

 

[Karalysia]

I do believe you are the naive one here. You see my dear lad become a professor and then make your book required reading that all your students must purchase =Profit.

 

[Traitorfish]

I do believe you are the naive one here. You see my dear lad become a professor and then make your book required reading that all your students must purchase =Profit.

And then, one day, you may even use that profit to pay off your student loans.

 

[Karalysia]

After tenure.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The telling that Lady Catherine gets when she lets loose on Elizabeth at the end is ossim.

 

[civ_king]

Profit? In academia? Oh, you poor naive thing.

How about

1. Go to library
2. Search library database with key terms
3. Find books
4. Read books
5. Use acquired knowledge

 

[Plotinus]

I do believe you are the naive one here. You see my dear lad become a professor and then make your book required reading that all your students must purchase =Profit.

Believe me, you need far more than one class reading your book to make any money from it whatsoever - let alone profit!

If you add up the time spent writing pretty much any academic book and divide the royalties actually received by that amount, I should think virtually all will come out at well below the minimum wage. (In fact that's probably true of most books in general, the majority of which never even earn out their advances.) In the case of scholarly books such as monographs and volumes of papers, the royalties received from those will be utterly negligible to start with.