The Metropolitan Poor Vol 2: Semifactual Accounts, 1795–1910 - Hardcover

Marriott, John; Matsumura, Masaie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113876163X ISBN 13: 9781138761636

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.

About this title

About the Author:

John Marriott is Senior Lecturer in History, Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London Masaie Matsumura is Professor and Dean of the Graduate School, Otemae College, Nishinomiya, Japan

Review:

'provides a formidable resource for students and teachers of nineteenth-century crime, policing, poverty and social policy.' Urban History 'An extraordinarily rich archive of testimony to economic and social destitution in Victorian London... What it offers, both in its raw record of social conditions and in its formal heterogeneity, is essentially the matrix of so much of Dickens' work as both novelist and journalist.' The Dickensian

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 113876163X
• ISBN 13: 9781138761636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 446