Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical...
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MP for Kerry East. Through his father, Mayhew was descended from the Victorian social commentator Henry Mayhew. He was educated at Tonbridge School, an...
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London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s, he observed, documented and described the state of working...
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Mayhew Lake is a lake in Cook County, Minnesota, in the United States. Mayhew Lake was named for Henry Mayhew, a state surveyor's assistant. U.S. Geological...
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"a person who sells fruit or vegetables from a cart or street stand. Henry Mayhew, a Victorian social commentator, distinguished between itinerant and...
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anything that is saleable at the rag-and-bottle or marine-store shop. — Henry Mayhew These bone-grubbers, as they were sometimes known, would typically spend...
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social reporter Henry Mayhew refers to it in his writings of the 1840s and 1850s. By 1850, the word was well established. In that year, Mayhew described "the...
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British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential...
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they also kept everything they made as a result of their own labour. Henry Mayhew, in his book London Labour and the London Poor; Extra Volume, 1851, provides...
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dinner earlier". The satirical novel Living for Appearances (1855) by Henry Mayhew and his brother Augustus begins with the views of the hero on the matter...
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renamed "Spring-heeled Jack" in some Punch and Judy shows, as recounted by Henry Mayhew in his London Labour and the London Poor: This here is Satan, – we might...
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Chronicle newspaper report series London Labour and the London Poor, by Henry Mayhew, records the usages of both "nigger" and the similar-sounding word "niggard"...
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from the 17th century and into Victorian times, an area described by Henry Mayhew in about 1860 in A Visit to the Rookery of St Giles and its Neighbourhood...
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14. JSTOR 10.1525/gfc.2002.2.2.14. "liquor". collinsdictionary.com. Henry, Mayhew (1851). London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition...
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Sherbet, Lemonade,&C., from London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 1, Henry Mayhew, 1851; subsequent pages cover the costs and income of street sherbet...
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suburb, but then a village. Octavia Hill was impressed and moved by Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, a book that portrayed the daily lives...
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Sherbet, Lemonade,&C., from London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 1, Henry Mayhew, 1851; subsequent pages cover the costs and income of street lemonade...
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Sherbet, Lemonade,&C., from London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 1, Henry Mayhew, 1851; subsequent pages cover the costs and income of street ginger beer...
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armories Craven museum Edward Henry Knight (1876). Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. Hurd and Houghton. Henry Mayhew (1855). "Away with the Blunderbuss"...
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salaried woman journalist Eliza Lynn Linton; for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book format in 1851 as London Labour...
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panpipes around his neck and a bass drum and tambourine beside him. Henry Mayhew's history of London street life in the 1840s and 1850s described a blind...
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ad hoc basis could not keep up with the expanding population's needs. Henry Mayhew visited Bethnal Green in 1850 and wrote for the Morning Chronicle, as...
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Cruikshank, Internet Archive London Labour and the London Poor, Vol III , Henry Mayhew, p.54, Internet Archive "Tidernas saga för vår tid (Timeless tale for...
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the publication of the British periodical Punch in 1841, founded by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells (an earlier magazine that published cartoons...
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Caledonian Road and started pickle packing at Soho Square (described by Henry Mayhew in his 1865 book The Shops and Companies of London, and the Trades and...
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nominal value of the pipe. About Common Pipe Network Part Terms, Autodesk Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, II 445, 1840s Friedman, Don (2017-10-05)...
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London Labour and the London Poor (published 1851), English journalist Henry Mayhew referred to mid-19th-century crossing-sweeping as "one of those occupations...
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Statistical Society of London on their studies of crime and its distribution. Henry Mayhew used empirical methods and an ethnographic approach to address social...
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to have a vast knowledge of the circumstances in which Dodger lives. Henry Mayhew, is a friend of Charlie who (together with his wife) first takes care...
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performances, he murders his wife and child, as well as the Devil. In 1851, Henry Mayhew wrote of one performer who described the character's enduring appeal:...
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