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London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Henry Mayhew; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)


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An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhew's comprehensive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes much to his sympathetic understanding and effective literary style. This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst that illuminates Mayhew's life and career, the genesis and development of the book, and its influence on contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley.

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  • Title London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition
  • Author Henry Mayhew; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2010-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780199566082 / 0199566089
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.4 x 7.8 x 1.3 in (13.72 x 19.81 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Social conditions - 19th, Working poor - England - London - History -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.569

About the author

Henry Mayhew was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and one of the founding editors of Punch.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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