Any social structure, particularly that of Victorian England, is so much a matter of sentiment and prejudice that the descriptions given by contemporary novelists may be as worth studying from one point of view as statistics are from another. (1)__________________________________.
Our own ideas of our dissolving and reforming society are affected by novels and films, which help to set or change the tone as well as capture it.
(2)________________________________________; they had less scope for evaluating social importance differently and their accounts, however slanted, tally more closely with each other than those of modern novelists are likely to do a century from now.
Some of the Victorian novelists were more at home with certain segments of society than with others, and their personal reactions to the system differed; (3)_______________________________________.
