Cover of The London Underworld in the Victorian Period

The London Underworld in the Victorian Period

Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

by Henry Mayhew

2005 404 pages eng

Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves — giving a literal description of their labour, their earnings, their trials and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language." With his collaborators, Mayhew explored hundreds of miles of London …

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