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London Labour and the London Poor
Assembled 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 IV explores the lives of: prostitutes swindlers thieves beggars. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch.
Walking the Victorian Streets
In Walking the Victorian Streets, Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb, Pierce Egan, and Dickens.
The Fool Of The Family
"The Fool of the Family" by Bracebridge Hemyng is a delightful Victorian-era story that combines elements of adventure, romance, and comedy. The novel is set in England during the nineteenth century and chronicles the exploits of the eccentric protagonist, Jack Granger. As the moniker implies, Jack is regarded as the "fool" in his family circle due to his unusual conduct and proclivity for getting into trouble. Despite his reputation, Jack has a good heart and a keen sense of humor, endearing himself to readers as he embarks on a series of comic adventures. Throughout the radical, Jack unearths himself embroiled in various humorous situations, often regarding improper identities, romantic en...
The young buccaneer
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The Young Buccaneer
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