How the Poor Live ; And, Horrible London
Author : George Robert Sims
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 1889
Category : England
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How the Poor Live
Author : George Robert Sims
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Poor
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How the Poor Live
Author : George R. Sims
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409966487
Book Description
George Robert Sims (1847-1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. He began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums. A prolific journalist and writer, he also produced a number of novels. Sims is bestremembered for his dramatic monologue from The Dagonet Ballads. He also contributed numerous articles from 1879 to 1883 about the bad condition of the poor in London's slums in the Sunday Dispatch, Daily News and other papers. Many of these were later published in book form. He wrote many popular ballads attempting to draw attention to the predicament of the poor. These efforts were important in raising public opinion on the subject and led to reform legislation in the Act of 1885. Sims also raised public awareness of other issues, including white slave traffic in a series articles published in the Daily Telegraph. His other works include: How the Poor Live (1883) and Anna of the Underworld (1916).
How the Poor Live And, Horrible London
Author : George R Sims
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2024-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789362208958
Book Description
"How the Poor Live" by George R. Sims is a groundbreaking work of social commentary that delves into the harsh realities faced by the impoverished in Victorian London. As a seminal example of investigative journalism, Sims's narrative serves as a poignant exposé of the dire living conditions and economic hardships endured by the urban poor. Through vivid descriptions and firsthand accounts, Sims offers readers a window into the daily struggles and injustices experienced by the marginalized segments of society. With empathy and insight, he shines a spotlight on the disparity between the affluent classes and the destitute masses, sparking conversations about inequality and social reform. Sims's writing is characterized by its raw honesty and unflinching portrayal of the human condition, making "How the Poor Live" a powerful call to action for societal change. By amplifying the voices of the voiceless and challenging the status quo, Sims's work continues to resonate with readers, inspiring empathy, compassion, and advocacy for the marginalized in every era.
Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409478823
Book Description
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
A Child of the Jago
Author : Arthur Morrison
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770484353
Book Description
“Learn to read and write, learn all you can, learn cunning, spare nobody and stop at nothing. … Do your devilmost … for the Jago’s got you!” Dicky Perrott, growing up in the notoriously criminal enclave of the Jago, listens and learns. Compelled by his family’s circumstances to provide for his mother and siblings, he sharpens his skills as a boy thief. Along the way, he navigates the Jago’s topsy-turvy ethics, vacillating between the rival messages of his mentors, a devious local fence and a righteous slum priest. Relentless in its bleakness and violence, A Child of the Jago captures the desperate struggle for survival in 1890s East London. This Broadview Edition provides the literary, socio-historical, and philosophical contexts vital to readers’ understanding and appreciation of the novel. Historical appendices include materials on eugenics, hooliganism, women’s sweated labor, cultural philanthropy, and the debate over the novel’s accuracy.
Pictures of Poverty
Author : Lydia Jakobs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0861969863
Book Description
From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief.
With God on their Side
Author : James Gardner
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0718895940
Book Description
The Salvation Army is nowadays viewed with fondness, but William Booth's evangelical crusade of the 1880s and early 1890s sparked violent riots led by an opposition group, the Skeleton Army. These riots caused destruction to property, injury to many people and, on occasion, loss of life. Spreading across the South and West of England, the Skeleton Army's aim was to eject Salvationists from their towns. Rather than facing repercussions themselves, however, it was often the peaceful parading Salvationists who were imprisoned. In With God on Their Side, James Gardner follows the spread of violence in the context of the popular conservatism of late-Victorian England, with close study of particular towns creating a rich tapestry of historical narrative that will be of interest to scholars and enthusiasts alike. The motives and actions of both groups are considered, along with the subsequent shift in the Salvation Army's focus towards social welfare. It is this shift that enabled the organisation to grow into the treasured charity we know today, and helped transform William Booth from one of the most vilified men of the nineteenth century into its saint.
Spitalfields
Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1448164567
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. In Spitalfields, one of Britain's best-loved historians tells the stories of the streets he has lived in for four decades. Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, Cruickshank explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led. En route, he discovers the tales of the Huguenot weavers who made Spitalfields their own after the Great Fire of London. He recounts the experiences of the first Jewish immigrants. He evokes the slum-ridden courts and alleys of Jack the Ripper's Spitalfields. And he describes the transformation of the Spitalfields he first encountered in the 1970s from a war-damaged collection of semi-derelict houses to the vibrant community it is today. This is a fascinating evocation of one of London's most distinctive districts. At the same time, it is a history of England in miniature.
British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945
Author : David W. Gutzke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1315387131
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Trevor O. Lloyd as teacher, scholar, mentor and friend -- 2 Introduction -- 3 A party for 'peers and parsons?' The social composition of the Irish Conservative party and its electoral consequences, 1852-68 -- 4 Florence Nightingale reconsidered as the founder of modern nursing -- 5 Britain, muckraking and transnational exchanges -- 6 Politics and the social sphere: the Primrose League during the First World War -- 7 Baldwin's Empire: Canada 1927 -- 8 Experiences of British prisoners of war in the Far East: death and their relatives at home from 1942 -- A bibliography: Trevor O. Lloyd -- Index
