London Labour and the London Poor

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London Labour and the London Poor

By: Henry Mayhew

Narrated by: David Timson

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London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society. We encounter street entertainers, 'pure finders', cabinetmakers, gingerbread sellers, 'screeve-fakers', swindlers, and burglars. We hear accounts from toshers finding items in sewers, people attempting to train pigs to dance, and witness the sale of everything from gilt watches and chickweed to needles, dog collars, and eel soup. It is a remarkable work, said to have inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, who described it as 'a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it'.

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Public Domain (P)2018 Naxos Audiobooks

Henry MayhewDavid TimsonNaxos AudioBooks

19th Century

Classics

Europe

Great Britain

Modern

Poverty & Homelessness

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World

England

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Witty

19th Century Classics Europe Great Britain Modern Poverty & Homelessness Social Sciences World England Fiction Witty

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I've always loved Mayhew - especially for faithfully recording, for the first time, the voices of the 'people of the abyss'.
The narration is excellent; David Timson's vocalisations of the downtrodden and weary has real variation and pathos.
My only (very slight) criticism is that this edition leaves out many of Mayhew's interviews. However it makes up for it by including much fascinating material, including some of his correspondence with readers.
If you've been hooked by Mayhew's ability to take you back in time and hear the voices of the day to day folk of early Victorian London, you won't be disappointed.