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[1] LONDONLABOURANDTHELONDONPOOR. THE STREET-FOLK. Of Wandering Tribes in General. Of the thousand millions of human beings that are said to constitute the population of the entire globe, there are—socially, morally, ...
London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s, he observed, documented and described the state of working people in London for a series of articles in a newspaper, t...
Apr 12, 2009 · This digital copy of book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before was carefully scanned by Google as part of project to make the world's books discoverable online.
Henry Mayhew (born 1812, London, England—died July 25, 1887, London) was an English journalist and sociologist, a founder of the magazine Punch (1841), who was a vivid and voluminous writer best known for London Labou...
Mayhew interviewed people living and working in London, and described in his volumes their clothing, their customs, and how and where they lived, with vivid anecdotal accounts.
Mayhew wrote his articles, collected together as LondonLabourandtheLondonPoor (1851), in the decades that Dickens wrote Dombey and Son and Bleak House, and Mayhew’s work is every bit as vivid and surprising as a Dicke...
London Labour and the London Poor is a seminal work written by Henry Mayhew, a British journalist and social investigator, first published in the mid-19th century. The book’s four volumes explore the lives of the urba...
Unflinching reports of London’s poor from a prolific and influential English writer LondonLabourand the LondonPoor originated in a series of articles, later published in four...
Mar 24, 2022 · LondonLabourandtheLondonPoor was originally a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the Morning Chronicle in 1849 and 1850 by journalist HenryMayhew. Mayhew aimed simply to re...
The collection teems with the minute particulars of the everyday—bits and pieces of London lives assembled into a precarious whole by the author, editor, and principal investigator, HenryMayhew.