Henry Mayhew

• Mar-2008
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By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world to view. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864* Excerpt: ...art is practised, every scheme is devise...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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As the title suggests, the story revolves around the Sandboys family and their attempt to travel from Cumberland to London to visit the 1851 Great Exhibition being held at Joseph Paxton’s ‘Crystal Palace’ in Hyde Park. However, their journey is...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical ...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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This rare text was originally published in 1851 and is republished now with a new introductory biography of the author. This book has been chosen because of its cultural importance, published with the intent of immortalising valuable literature to be...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, w...

• / General Fiction
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Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the two founders of the satirical and humourous magazine Punch, and the magazine’s joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early d...