The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

By Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell and Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B00A1PDPC4
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Spring Books
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.