Hard Cash: A Matter of Fact Romance

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 625 words | Copyright

Hard Cash: A Matter of Fact Romance, a sensation novel by C. Reade, published 1863 (published in serial form as Very Hard Cash). Reade's novel attacks mid-Victorian Britain's poorly regulated asylum system through two main plot strands. The first concerns Alfred Hardie, wrongfully incarcerated in an insane asylum by his father, Richard, in order to conceal a banking fraud. A second plot involves a genuine case of insanity. The novel concludes with a request for information relating to the wrongful committal of other sane persons—in response to which R. Bulwer-Lytton wrote her memoir, A Blighted Life (1880).

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