Mayhew's London
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Victorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental sociological work, London Labour and the London Poor. Edited by Peter Quennell, this volume presents Mayhew's extraordinary firsthand accounts of the street sellers, costermongers, crossing-sweepers, and the vast, teeming underclass who populated the back alleys and bustling thoroughfares of mid-19th-century London — rendered in their own voices with startling intimacy and immediacy. Mayhew's genius lay in his relentless pursuit of authentic human testimony, and Quennell's skilled editorship distils that vast chronicle into an accessible and compelling portrait of a society in upheaval. The result is a work of enduring literary and historical significance, sitting at the crossroads of journalism, sociology, and social reform — a text that both illuminates the precarious lives of the Victorian poor and indicts the systemic inequalities that shaped them. For anyone captivated by the hidden histories of ordinary lives, this volume asks a haunting question: how much, really, has changed?
Author: Peter Quennell
Format: Hardback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Victorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental sociological work, London Labour and the London Poor. Edited by Peter Quennell, this volume presents Mayhew's extraordinary firsthand accounts of the street sellers, costermongers, crossing-sweepers, and the vast, teeming underclass who populated the back alleys and bustling thoroughfares of mid-19th-century London — rendered in their own voices with startling intimacy and immediacy. Mayhew's genius lay in his relentless pursuit of authentic human testimony, and Quennell's skilled editorship distils that vast chronicle into an accessible and compelling portrait of a society in upheaval. The result is a work of enduring literary and historical significance, sitting at the crossroads of journalism, sociology, and social reform — a text that both illuminates the precarious lives of the Victorian poor and indicts the systemic inequalities that shaped them. For anyone captivated by the hidden histories of ordinary lives, this volume asks a haunting question: how much, really, has changed?