Vagabonds : life on the streets of nineteenth-century London
Cox Jensen, Oskar, 1988-2023
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Place reservation for Vagabonds : life on the streets of nineteenth-century LondonUntil 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 Doré. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical. This social history 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, Oskar Jensen unites a breadth of 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.
Main title:
Vagabonds : life on the streets of nineteenth-century London / Oskar Jensen.
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Imprint:
Richmond : Duckworth, 2023.
Collation:
xxvi, 325 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780715654958 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.5'69'0942109034305.569094210903
Language:
English
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BRN:
3484165
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