Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large thick books, borrowed from the library. They told how they used to break open the houses, and get out of Newgate, and how Dick got away to York. We used to think Jack and them very fine fellows. I wished I could be like Jack (I did then), about the blankets in his escape, and that old house in West-street -it is a ruin still." |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1850 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London other location: low lodging house |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | vagrant |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
young men accommodated in the low lodging house |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Harrison Ainsworth |
Title: | Rookwood |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (public library) borrowed library |
Record ID: | 1288 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 383 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 3, p. 383, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1288, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
could be listener or reader; unsure, but entered here as listener with other listeners |
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