London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will NotAssembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.* |
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Page 3
... paper, sealing-wax, pens, pencils, stenographic cards, valentines, engravings, manuscript music, images, and gelatine poetry cards. 5. The Street-sellers of Manufactured Articles, which class comprises a large number of individuals, as ...
... paper, sealing-wax, pens, pencils, stenographic cards, valentines, engravings, manuscript music, images, and gelatine poetry cards. 5. The Street-sellers of Manufactured Articles, which class comprises a large number of individuals, as ...
Page 4
... paper-cutters, " screevers" or draughtsmen in coloured chalks on the pavement, writers without hands, and readers without eyes. 4. The Street Dancers — as street Scotch girls, sailors, slack and tight rope dancers, dancers on stilts ...
... paper-cutters, " screevers" or draughtsmen in coloured chalks on the pavement, writers without hands, and readers without eyes. 4. The Street Dancers — as street Scotch girls, sailors, slack and tight rope dancers, dancers on stilts ...
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... paper, that flares away with the candle. Some stalls are crimson with the fire shining through the holes beneath the baked chestnut stove ; others have handsome octahedral lamps, while a few have a candle shining through a sieve : these ...
... paper, that flares away with the candle. Some stalls are crimson with the fire shining through the holes beneath the baked chestnut stove ; others have handsome octahedral lamps, while a few have a candle shining through a sieve : these ...
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... paper, and the side-pocket of the apple-man's stuff coat hangs down with the weight of the halfpence stored within it. Presently the tolling of the neighbouring church bells breaks forth. Then the bustle doubles itself, the cries grow ...
... paper, and the side-pocket of the apple-man's stuff coat hangs down with the weight of the halfpence stored within it. Presently the tolling of the neighbouring church bells breaks forth. Then the bustle doubles itself, the cries grow ...
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... paper of the beer-shop to them, and on a fine summer's evening a coster- monger, or any neighbour who has the advantage of being "a schollard," reads aloud to them in the courts they inhabit. What they love best to listen to — and ...
... paper of the beer-shop to them, and on a fine summer's evening a coster- monger, or any neighbour who has the advantage of being "a schollard," reads aloud to them in the courts they inhabit. What they love best to listen to — and ...
Contents
| 1 | |
| 61 | |
| 79 | |
| 96 | |
The Street Irish | 104 |
Street Sellers op Game Poultry Babbits Butter Cheese and Egos | 120 |
Street Sellers of Trees Shrubs Flowers Boots Seeds and Branches | 131 |
Street Sellers op Green Stuff | 145 |
Street Sellers op Eatables and Drinkables | 158 |
Street Sellers of Stationery Literature and the Fine Arts | 213 |
Street Sellers of Manufactured Articles _ | 323 |
The Women Street Sellers | 460 |
The Children Street Sellers | 468 |
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