Paved with Gold
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Author_Augustus Mayhew
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Billy Fortune
bitter
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Crimson
crosier
Drew Back
Duck
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Follow
Haymarket
Hold
Inclined
Iron Gates
lady
Lap
london
London street life ethnographic analysis
lower-class ethnography
Man
Mid-day
nathaniel
Nightcaps
nineteenth-century London society
Omnibuses
Outcasts
Pauper School
reality
romance
Smoothed
street
street children research
T Ai
Trouser
urban poverty studies
vagrancy and tramp culture
Victorian social history
Vowed
Wandering
Wo
young
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780714614120
- Weight: 1050g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1971
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 1971. Part of the Library of eight volumes on Victorian Times, this was subtitled as 'an unfashionable novel' when published. Toward the end of his short but informative preface to Paved With Gold, first published in book form in 1858, Augustus Mayhew states that the descriptions of boy-life in the streets, the habits and customs of donkey-drivers, the peculiarities of trampdom and vagrancy, have all resulted from long and patient inquiries among the individuals themselves. The convincing liveliness of these passages testifies to his minute and accurate knowledge of London lower-class life, and this personal experience of the low life he 'romanced' about is, in turn, the basis of our interest in Paved With Gold.
Augustus Mayhew (1826-1875) was the youngest of seven sons of a well-to-do London solicitor. With second edition introduction by ANNE HUMPHERYS Herbert H. Lehman College, New York
