Living in Early Victorian London Alpert Michael
Living in Early Victorian London Alpert Michael London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Railways, stations and sidings were devouring whole…
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Living in Early Victorian London Alpert Michael
London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Railways, stations and sidings were devouring whole districts and creating acres of slums or 'rookeries' into which the poor of the city were jammed and where crime, disease and prostitution were rife.The most sensational crime of the epoch, the murder of Patrick O'Connor by Frederick and Maria Manning, filled the press in the summer and autumn of 1849. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with refuse and human filth.
Michael Alpert uses the trial record of this murder, accompanied by numerous other contemporary sources, among them journalism, diaries and fiction, to show how day-to-day lives, birth, death, sickness, work, shopping, cooking, and buying clothes, were
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