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This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London's underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s. His interviews with street traders, beggars, and thieves results in a work as vivid as a Victorian novel. This new selection includes original illustrations and an illluminating introduction and notes.

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Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world. * John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 *
Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was. * Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 *
superb new edition * Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 *
superb introduction * Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 *
some of the best descriptive writing in the English language * Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010 *

London Labour and the London Poor

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 12 April 2012
      ISBN-13 9780199697571
      978-0199697571
      ISBN-10 0199697574
      Also in:
      History European history Social and cultural history Politics, Philosophy & Society Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London's underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s. His interviews with street traders, beggars, and thieves results in a work as vivid as a Victorian novel. This new selection includes original illustrations and an illluminating introduction and notes.

      Trade Review
      Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world. * John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 *
      Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was. * Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 *
      superb new edition * Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 *
      superb introduction * Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 *
      some of the best descriptive writing in the English language * Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010 *

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