Wonderful London
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41
1878
English
- The Ghosts of the London Midnight
- The Ugliest Street in London
- Some Curious Performers
- At a Little Dinner in Tatter-Street
- Saturday Night at The Cat
- Girl Labour in London
- The Stable Side of Mayfair
- Opposite a Cabstand
- A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens
- London Society in a 'Flat'
- The Foreign Settlement in Soho
- Rooked in the City
- All over London
- Outsiders of society, and their homes in London
- The London 'Rough'
- Lodgers in the Suburbs
- The Londoner's Spring
- London Life and Country Life
- The Last Man in Town
- Picturesque London
- Sketches from an Office Window
- Half an Hour in a Servants' Registry Office
- A shady industry
- The vampire bride
- Jack's delight
- A police-court Morning Performance
- Cockney Cave-dwellers
- Madman's Paradise
- Gaol-birds at Large
- St. Valentine's Shabby Suit
- A Young Vagabond's Vacation
- A Beggar's Confession
- Birds of a Feather
- 'Home-wreckers'
- A Night With Thieves
- The Sunday Rag-fair in the City
- Our Poor Old Horses
- Retired Tradesmen
- The End of "Jack Ketch's Warren"
- A White-glove Day
- Ladies in the Temple
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essays, studded with conversation, on aspects of Victorian London life, seen through the eyes of a middle-class narrator.
NOTES:
1 A "ticket of leave" is a document of parole issued to convicts who can be trusted with a degree of freedom.
2 In Chapter three, a "cornopean" is a reed organ.
3 In Chapter twenty, "negus" is a drink made from port mixed with hot water, citrus fruit, spices and sugar.
(Summary by Peter Yearsley)
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