Which author's writings about children starving in workhouses and debtors serving time in prison awakened middle-class British readers to the need for reform? A. Charles wingspanens B. Karl Marx C. Charles Darwin D. Sir Edwin Chadwick

It was "Sir Edwin Chadwick" whose writings about children starving in workhouses and debtors serving time in prison awakened middle-class British readers to the need for reform. He was especially concerned with the Poor Laws which kept many poor people from experiencing any upward mobility.