Coster girls & mudlarks : street voices from Victorian London : a selection of nineteenth-century source material

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Label

Coster girls & mudlarks : street voices from Victorian London : a selection of nineteenth-century source material

Title remainder

street voices from Victorian London : a selection of nineteenth-century source material

Statement of responsibility

based on interviews for London labour & the London poor by Henry Mayhew ; edited by Belinda Hollyer

Contributor

• Hollyer, Belinda
• Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887

Subject

• Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources | Juvenile literature
• History
• London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources | Juvenile literature
• Non-Fiction 9+
• Working class -- England | London -- Interviews | Juvenile literature
• Working class -- England | London -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Interviews
• Juvenile literature
• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

Henry Mayhew was a journalist on a London newspaper in the 1850s, writing a series of articles about working-class London. This book is based on a selection of Mayhew's interviews, supported by the author's narrative and additional material, such as songs, poems, advertisements and engravings

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 942.1'081
• 942.1081

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent