The London Underworld In The Victorian Period: Authentic First-person Accounts By Beggars, Thieves And Prostitutes - Brossura

Mayhew, Henry

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ISBN 10: 0486440060 ISBN 13: 9780486440064

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2005

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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 collaborators, Mayhew explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humbler residents. Their stories revealed aspects of city life virtually unknown to literate society.
A sprawling, four-volume history resulted from Mayhew's investigations. This extract focuses on the criminal class--pickpockets, prostitutes, rag pickers, and vagrants, whose true stories of degradation, horror, and desperation rival Dickensian fiction. A classic reference source for sociologists, historians, and criminologists, Mayhew's work is immensely readable. As Thackeray wrote, these urban vignettes conjure up "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it."

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Prostitutes Prostitution in London.--By Bracebridge Hemyng Seclusives, or those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments Board Lodgers Those who live in Low Lodging Houses Sailors' Women Soldiers' Women Thieves' Women Park Women The Dependants of Prostitutes Bawds Followers of Dress Lodgers Keepers of Accommodation Houses Procuresses, Pimps, and Panders Fancy-men Bullies Clandestine Prostitutes Female Operatives Maid-Servants Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation Cohabitant Prostitutes Narrative of a Gay Woman Criminal Returns Traffic in Foreign Women Thieves and Swindlers.--By John Binny Introduction Sneaks, or Common Thieves Stealing from Street-Stalls Stealing from the Tills Stealing from the Doors and Windows of Shops Stealing from Children Child Stripping Stealing from Drunken Persons Stealing Linen, &c. Robberies from Carts Stealing Lead from House-tops, Copper from Kitchens, &c. Robberies by False Keys Robberies by Lodgers Robberies by Servants Area and Lobby Sneaks Stealing by Lifting Windows, &c. Attic or Garret Thieves A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles Narrative of a London Sneak Pickpockets and Shoplifters Omnibus Pickpockets Railway Pickpockets Shoplifters A Visit to the Thieves' Dens in Spitalfields Narrative of a Pickpocket Horse and Dog Stealers Horse Stealing Dog Stealing Highway Robbers A Ramble among the Thieves' Dens in the Borough Housebreakers and Burglars Narrative of a Burglar Narrative of another Burglar Prostitute Thieves The Prostitutes of the Haymarket Hired Prostitutes Park Women Soldiers' Women Sailors' Women Felonies on the River Thames The Mudlarks Sweeping Boys Sellers of Small Wares Labourers on Board Ship, &c. Dredgemen or Fishermen Smuggling Felonies by Lightermen The River Pirates Narrative of a Mudlark Receivers of Stolen Property Dolly Shops Pawnbrokers, &c. Narrative of a Returned Convict Coining Forgers Bank Notes Cheques Forged Acceptance Forged Wills Cheats Embezzlers Magsmen, or Sharpers The Card Tricks Skittles Thimble and Pea The Lock Swindlers Beggars and Cheats.--By Andrew Halliday Introduction Origin and History of the Poor Laws Statistics of the Poor Laws Report of the Poor Law Board (1860) Street Beggars in 1816 Mendicant Pensioners Begging-Letter Writers in 1816 Mendicity Society A Deserving Case Another An Imposter Another Imposter A Well-Educated Beggar Begging-Letter Writers Decayed Gentlemen Broken-down Trademen Distressed Scholar The Kaggs Family Advertising Begging-Letter Writers Ashamed Beggars The Swell Beggar Clean Family Beggars Naval and Military Beggars Turnpike Sailor Street Campaigners Foreign Beggars The French Beggar Destitute Poles Hindoo Beggars Negro Beggars Disaster Beggars A Shipwrecked Mariner Blown-up Miners Burnt-out Tradesmen Lucifer Droppers Bodily Afflicted Beggars Seventy years a Beggar Having swollen Legs Cripples A Blind Beggar Beggars subject to Fits Being in a Decline "Shallow Coves" Famished Beggars The Choking Dodge The Offal-Eater Petty Trading Beggars An Author's Wife Dependants of Beggars Referees Distressed Operative Beggars Starved-out Manufacturers Unemployed Agriculturists and Frozen-out Gardeners Hand-loom Weavers, &c.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0486440060
• ISBN 13: 9780486440064
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 404