The London underworld in the Victorian period : authentic first-person accounts by beggars, thieves and prostitutes

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The London underworld in the Victorian period : authentic first-person accounts by beggars, thieves and prostitutes

Henry Mayhew and others

Dover Publications, 2005

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London labour and the London poor

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"Unabridged republication of 'Prostitution in London' (by Bracebridge Hemyng), 'Thieves and swindlers' (by John Binny), and 'Beggars' (by Andrew Halliday) from volume IV (also known as "the extra volume" and subtitled, Those that will not work, comprising prostitutes, thieves, swindlers and beggars) of the London labour and London poor, originally published in 1861 by Griffin, Bohn, and Company, London"--T.p. verso

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