Henry Mayhew

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Standard Name: Mayhew, Henry
Henry Mayhew, seated, with papers in hand, turning to look at the viewer. Image from a daguerreotype by Richard Beard, used to illustrate Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1, 1851.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Self-Education looks at the shortcomings of current school systems for both poor and privileged children.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
64
, John Chapman, July 1855, pp. 73-94.
63 (July 1855): 39-41
The most important lessons in life, she says, are taught to children at a young age...
Intertextuality and Influence Philip Larkin
This volume includes the highly characteristic Wants, a two-stanza poem with two refrains: Beyond all this, the wish to be alone, and Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003.
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The poems were, however...
Literary Setting Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Despite Jewsbury's comment, this is a particularly strong novel, which focuses on the position of women through character development and interior lives, although narration rather than dialogic showing is still the dominant technique. Nor is...
Occupation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's theatre career peaked with her run at the Surrey Theatre , London, in pieces like J. B. Johnstone 's The Sailor of France and How We Live in the World of London...
Textual Features Isa Craig
IC 's article has a documentary feel typical of much social investigation literature, particularly the seamstress narrative popularized by writers such as Thomas Hood , Henry Mayhew , and Elizabeth Gaskell in her novel Ruth...
Textual Features Michèle Roberts
In the earlier period of the novel, Joseph Benson takes a philanthropic interest in fallen women, and helps Henry Mayhew in the research for his ground-breaking London Labour and the London Poor, published in...

Timeline

13 May 1848: Henry and Augustus Mayhew published the satiric...

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13 May 1848

Henry and Augustus Mayhew published the satiric novel Whom to Marry and How to Get Married—it included the author credit By one who has refused twenty excellent offers at least.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1072 (13 May 1848): 481-2

October 1848-December 1850: Henry Mayhew's eighty-two letters to the...

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October 1848-December 1850

Henry Mayhew 's eighty-two letters to the Morning Chronicle painted a powerful portrait of working-class life and reported widespread prostitution among female slopworkers.
Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920. Oxford University Press, 1991.
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December 1850-February 1852: Henry Mayhew serially published London Labour...

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December 1850-February 1852

Henry Mayhew serially published London Labour and the London Poor.
Humphreys, Anne. Henry Mayhew. Twayne, 1984.
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1862: Henry Mayhew published The Criminal Prisons...

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1862

Henry Mayhew published The Criminal Prisons of London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
634

1874: Henry Mayhew, well known for his journalism...

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1874

Henry Mayhew , well known for his journalism on the British lower classes, published London Characters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Texts

Mayhew, Henry, and Sir William Schwenck Gilbert. London Characters. Chatto and Windus, 1874.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. G. Woodfall, 1851, 3 vols.
Mayhew, Henry, and John Binney. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life. Griffin, Bohn, 1862.
Cruikshank, George. Whom to Marry and How to Get Married. Editors Mayhew, Henry and Augustus Mayhew, David Bogue, 1848.