| Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I thought I should make my fortune in London -I'd heard it was such a grand place. I had read in novels and romances -halfpenny and penny books -about such things, but I've met with nothing of the kind." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | boy vagrant in London workhouse |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Fiction, Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1297 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 390 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1861), 3, p. 390, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1297, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
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