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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes | 
| Author: Henry Mayhew
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 515876
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0486440060
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.5690942109034
EAN: 9780486440064
ASIN: 0486440060
Publication Date: July 25, 2005
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The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London. Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humblest residents. A classic reference source for sociologists, historians, and criminologists.
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View into the underbelly of Victorian England October 22, 2007
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
The book is heavily referenced in Theodore Dalrymple's "Life at the Bottom" and due to the impact of that work, I placed an order for Mayhew's classic work.
Personally, for a survey of the side of London that Merchant Ivory films tend to miss, this book isn't the way to go.
Ideally, this should be a resource for Sociologists like Dalrymple or perhaps criminologists.
The extensive statistics and, frankly, difficult to decipher language of that time, make for a tedious read for the layperson.
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