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  • London Labour and the London Poor (Complete)

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopædia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. It is believed that the book is curious for many reasons: It surely may be considered curious as being the first attempt to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves—giving a literal ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices of Victorian London

    In Sickness and in Health

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Verbatim, unflinching interviews with poor working Victorians from a journalist whose interviews, published in a national newspaper, influenced Charles Dickens' creation of characters in his novels History is written by historians, and the voices of ordinary people are rarely featured, but this unique collection of interviews from the middle of the 19th century allows their voices to be heard. The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Plague of Life: The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant

    by Augustus Mayhew & Henry Mayhew ...
    It was a cold Autumnal midnight, and the wind was blowing frightfully, and the rain was beating against the windows, and not a sound was to be heard in the streets, unless I mention the noise of some two or three cabs tearing past the house, and bearing homewards their gay and youthful votaries of fashion from some festive ball or joyous theatre. Indeed, it was just such a night as makes the ... Read more

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  • The London Underworld In The Victorian Period - Authentic First-Person Accounts By Beggars, Thieves And Prostitutes

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    This vintage book contains Henry Mayhew's account of the London Underworld during the Victorian period, constructed from authentic first-person accounts by beggars, thieves and prostitutes. Hailed as the first and perhaps greatest sociological studies of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey practiced the techniques of oral history - a hundred years before the term was first coined. It ... Read more

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  • London Labour and the London Poor

    by Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. It originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with the city's street traders, entertainers, thieves and beggars ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • London Labour and the London Poor

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Voices of the Poor

    Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" "Labour and the Poor"

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    First Published in 1971. This is a collection of the influential letters (or articles) on the 'Labour and the Poor' written by Henry Mayhew for the Morning Chronicle as part of his contributions to the papers' survey of conditions among the lower classes. Charles Kingsley and the Christian Socialists pressed for sanitation reform because of Mayhew's revelations about Jacob's Island, a slum in ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Of Street Piemen

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    '...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich'Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social observation, and the ultimate account of urban life - including an extraordinary description of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Greatest Plague Of Life, Or The Adventures Of A Lady In Search of A Good Servant By one who has been "Almost Worried to Death"

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Series series
    Excerpt: "Ever since we first commenced housekeeping, I cannot say the creatures have let me know one day's perfect peace. A more indulgent master and mistress I am sure they never could have had. For myself, if they had been my own children I could not have looked after them more than I did—continually instructing them, and even sometimes condescending to do part of their work for them myself, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor

    The Metropolitan Districts Volume 6

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew’s complete Morning Chronicle ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor

    The Metropolitan Districts Volume 1

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew’s complete Morning Chronicle ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor

    The Metropolitan Districts Volume 3

    by Henry Mayhew ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew’s complete Morning Chronicle ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD