Original sentence: In The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform 1783–1802 (1981), he explored public administration in Ireland and Britain at the turn of the century through the career of his subject.MacDonagh also wrote extensively on the history of Irish immigration to Australia, and proposed the multi-volume bicentennial publication The Australians with Ken Inglis while chairman of the management committee of the Australian Bicentennial History Project.MacDonagh's first book The Passenger Acts: A Pattern of Government Growth (1961) was a critique of the inexorable expansion of government bureaucracy in the nineteenth century.There he explored Austen's contemporary society through the imagined lives of her own novels characters
Edited sentence: Here he explored Austen's contemporary society through the imagined lives of her own novels characters.In The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform 1783–1802 (1981) he explored public administration in Ireland and Britain at the turn of the century through the career of his subject.MacDonagh also wrote extensively on the history of Irish immigration to Australia, and proposed the multi-volume bicentenary publication The Australians with Ken Inglis while chairman of the management committee of the Australian Bicentennial History Project.MacDonagh's first book The Passenger Acts: A Pattern of Government Growth (1961) was an insightful critique of the inexorable expansion of government bureaucracy in the nineteenth century