id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6222 Gertrude Himmelfarb - Wikipedia .html text/html 3840 569 63 Himmelfarb was best known as a historian of Victorian England, but she put that period in a larger context.[19] Her book, The Idea of Poverty, opens with an extended analysis of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, who helped shape debate and policies through much the nineteenth century and beyond. His introduction to the British edition of Roads to Modernity opens: "I have long admired Gertrude Himmelfarb's historical work, in particular her love of the history of ideas, and her work has stayed with me ever since I was a history student at Edinburgh University."[25] ^ Martin, Douglas, and Slotnik, Daniel, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 the New York Times, January 1, 2020, Obituary, section B, page 11 ^ Martin, Douglas, and Slotnik, Daniel, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 the New York Times, January 1, 2020, Obituary, section B, page 11 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6222.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6222.txt