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The Essential Mayhew
Mayhew's exploration of the Victorian underclass has long been regarded as a classic of low-life reportage - a canny mixture of oral history and social statistics, with deliberate stress on the sensational. This book offers the re-discovered text of Henry Mayhew's correspondence with the readers of London Labour and the London Poor, letters which promoted the sales of the weekly instalments by becoming a vital link between Mayhew and his mostly working class readership. The letters not only define Mayhew's sociology in the making, they can be used as the undertext of London Labour and the London poor. Bertrand Taithe's analytic introduction reinforces Mayhew's claims to be a pioneer and serious theorist, and places this early militant in his own social context - a bourgeois renegade who still revealed the power of middle-class meanings.
Henry Mayhew
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Mayhew's London; Being Selections from 'London Labour and the London Poor' (Which Was First Published in 1851)
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Mayhew's London
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The Wayward Genius of Henry Mayhew
A selection of inspiring reportage from pioneering London-based investigative journalist Henry Mayhew, a close friend and influential character in Charles Dickens’ life and works. The 200th anniversary of Henry Mayhew’s birth is overshadowed by that of his friend and collaborator Charles Dickens. But in fact Mayhew was a pioneering investigative journalist who wrote over a million words about the lives of poor working people in London, and whose writings and descriptions may have inspired some of Dickens’ characters. In some respects, Mayhew was his own worst enemy. He was disorganised - one of his books ended in mid-sentence - and cantankerous, and perhaps as a result his funeral was sparsely attended. But embedded in his fine reportage, which included long and moving interviews with Londoners, are passages descriptive of London, of people’s appearances and of their shabby homes, which stand alongside Dickens’ own writings for the quality and compassion of the prose.
The Unknown Mayhew
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London Labour and the London Poor
'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."' London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with London's street traders, entertainers, thieves and beggars which revealed that the 'two nations' of rich and poor in Victorian Britain were much closer than many people thought. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world to view. The first-hand accounts of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavenger and chimney-sweep, are inti...
