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  | | London Labour and the London Poor(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969757-1, ISBN: 0-19-969757-4 "'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 tha ..." |
 | | The London Underworld in the Victorian Period Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes (v. 1) by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2005 by Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-44006-4, ISBN: 0-486-44006-0 "The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. 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 collabor ..." |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor(1st Edition) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Henry Mayhew, Rosemary O'day, Professor David Englander, Tom Griffith, N.A. Paperback, 636 Pages, Published 2008 by Wordsworth Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-84022-619-5, ISBN: 1-84022-619-6 "With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unriv ..." |
 | | Little Black Classics of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classic ISBN-13: 978-0-14-198024-9, ISBN: 0-14-198024-9 "Of Street Piemen" |
 | | Labour and the Poor Volume I The Metropolitan Districts (Hardback) by Henry Mayhew Hardcover, Published 2020 by Ditto Books, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-913515-01-0, ISBN: 1-913515-01-X |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will No by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2013 by Cosimo Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-60520-739-1, ISBN: 1-60520-739-X "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 pict ..." |
 | | The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (18the Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (1862) 62) by Henry Mayhew, John Binny 734 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-169-82386-0, ISBN: 1-169-82386-6 "This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series." |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew 528 Pages, Published 2010 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-150147-0, ISBN: 0-19-150147-6 "Henry Mayhew Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. NOTE ON THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS London Labour and the London Poor has a long and tangled textual history. ... had previously appeared in Mayhew's weekly articles in the Morning Chronicle under the title 'Labour and the Poor' (19 October 1849—12 December 1850)." |
 | | The Victorian Underworld(1st Edition) by Donald Serrell Thomas, Henry Mayhew Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 1998 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8238-5, ISBN: 0-8147-8238-8 "William Makepeace Thackeray once wrote that the wonders of the Victorian underworld "have been lying by your door and mine ever since we had a door of our own." Donald Thomas here pushes open that door to reveal a world at once both strange and strangely familiar, inviting casual voyeur and serious historian alike to cross its threshold.Applying his talent for colorful biography to chronicle an entire age, Thomas shows us an underworld ..." |
 | | Mayhew's London Underworld(Updated) (Century Lives and Letters) by Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell Paperback, 427 Pages, Published 1987 by David & Charles ISBN-13: 978-0-7126-9570-1, ISBN: 0-7126-9570-2 "Followers of Dress-Lodgers I have spoken before of dress-lodgers, and I now come to women who are employed by the keepers of the brothels in which the dress-lodgers live, to follow them when they are sent into the streets to pick up men." |
 | | The Greatest Plague Of Life Or The Adventures Of A Lady In Search Of A Good Servant (1864) by Augustus Mayhew, Henry Mayhew, George Cruikshank Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-165-79334-1, ISBN: 1-165-79334-2 "This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work." |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor Volume II(Updated) by Henry Mayhew, J. D. Rosenberg Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 1983 by Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-21935-6, ISBN: 0-486-21935-6 "With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unriv ..." |
 | | German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day With an Account of Village Life--Town Life--Fashionable Life--Married Life--School and U (Paperback Or Softback) by Henry Mayhew Paperback, Published 2018 by Palala Press ISBN-13: 978-1-378-33777-6, ISBN: 1-378-33777-8 |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1 A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work (Classic Reprint) by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 554 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-330-73296-0, ISBN: 1-330-73296-0 "Excerpt from London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1: A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not WorkThe present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ..." |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work (Hardback) by Henry Mayhew, William Tuckniss Hardcover, Published 2016 by Palala Press ISBN-13: 978-1-355-65717-0, ISBN: 1-355-65717-2 |
 | | Young Benjamin Franklin; Or the Right Road Through Life A Story to Show How Young Benjamin Learned the Principles Which Raised Him from a Printer s Boy to the First Embassador of the American Republic; A Boy s Book on a Boy s Own Subject (Paperback) by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 568 Pages, Published 2015 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-331-61709-9, ISBN: 1-331-61709-X "Excerpt from Young Benjamin Franklin; Or the Right Road Through Life: A Story to Show How Young Benjamin Learned the Principles Which Raised Him From a Printer's Boy to the First Embassador of the American Republic; A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own Subject It was Walter Scott who first raised his voice against the folly of writing down to the child, saying, wisely enough, that the true object among authors for the young should be to write th ..." |
 | | Voices of Victorian London(1st Edition) In Sickness and in Health by Henry Mayhew, Jonathan Miller Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2011 by Hesperus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-350-4, ISBN: 1-84391-350-X "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 journalist Henry Mayhew tramped the str ..." |
 | | London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 514 Pages, Published 2009 by Bibliobazaar ISBN-13: 978-1-115-90412-4, ISBN: 1-115-90412-4 |
 | | Tales from the Victorian Underworld(1st Edition) by Donald Thomas, Henry Mayhew Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1998 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-5393-6, ISBN: 0-7195-5393-8 "1st John Murray hardcover 1998 1st print edition new condition book in new condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse" |
 | | London Labour and the London The Classical Study of the Culture of Poverty and the Criminal Classes in the 19th-Century Poor, Vol. 3 by Henry Mayhew Paperback, 447 Pages, Published 1982 by Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-21936-3, ISBN: 0-486-21936-4 "1861 milestone in sociology presents fascinating direct testimony of beggars, thieves, low working class of Victorian England. Over 80 illus. Most extensive work of its kind. Two-vol. Set. Volumes II and III." |
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