Vagabonds : life on the streets of nineteenth-century london /
by Cox Jensen, Oskar.
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BookPublisher: London : Duckworth, 2022Description: 1 volume ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780715654392 (hbk.) :; 071565439X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 942.1073 COXSubject(s): Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century | History | History | United Kingdom, Great Britain | London, Greater London | 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 | General & world history | European history | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | London (England) -- History -- 19th centurySummary: Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty - Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical. Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly - and radically - shows us the city's most compelling period (1780-1870) at street level. From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Jensen unites a breadth of original research and first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words. What emerges is a buzzing, cosmopolitan world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, origin, ability and occupation - a world that challenges and fascinates us still.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 942.1073 COX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003106641X |
Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty - Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical. Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly - and radically - shows us the city's most compelling period (1780-1870) at street level. From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Jensen unites a breadth of original research and first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words. What emerges is a buzzing, cosmopolitan world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, origin, ability and occupation - a world that challenges and fascinates us still.
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