The Victorian underworld

著者

    • Thomas, Donald

書誌事項

The Victorian underworld

Donald Thomas

J. Murray, 1998

  • hard
  • pbk.

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注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

hard ISBN 9780719553936

内容説明

Through the eyes of its inhabitants, this work portrays the 19th-century underworld, a place of "night houses" and cigar divans, of street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire-King. It looks at the criminals, growth of prostitution and prisons.

目次

  • Crime: Victoria's other London
  • the Dodgers and the Swell Mob
  • modern babylon
  • the unknown Victoria
  • "More deadly than Prussic acid"
  • entertainments - town and turf
  • "Misapplied genius". Retribution: lagged for life
  • justice denied
  • the arrest of Scotland Yard
  • past and future.
巻冊次

pbk. ISBN 9780719557293

内容説明

Here, through the eyes of its inhabitants, Donald Thomas portrays the nineteenth-century underworld -- one of 'night houses' and cigar divans, of street people and entertainers. The underworld was sheltered by an underclass, united with it in a hatred of the police. In its rookeries and padding-kens, gin shops and taverns, hard by the fashionable West End, thrived thieves and beggars, cheats, forgers and pickpockets, preying on rich and poor alike. Thackery wrote that the wonders of the Victorian underworld 'have been lying by your door and mine ever since we had a door of our own. We had but to go a hundred yards off and see it for ourselves, but we never did.' Her Donald Thomas pushes open that door to reveal a world at once both strange and strangely familiar.

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