The London Underworld in the Victorian Period One of the most important

One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period One of the most importantThe first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves giving a literal description of their labour, their earnings, their trials and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language." With his collaborators, Mayhew