{"title":"Henry Mayhew","description":"Henry Mayhew was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and one of the founding editors of Punch.","products":[{"product_id":"london-labour-and-the-london-poor-paperback","title":"London Labour and the London Poor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, \u003cem\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor\u003c\/em\u003e originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of \u003cem\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor\u003c\/em\u003e exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhew's comprehensive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes much to his sympathetic understanding and effective literary style. This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst that illuminates Mayhew's life and career, the genesis and development of the book, and its influence on contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374953464031,"sku":"9780199697571","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6gD7HLeaqH9780199697571.webp?v=1789189439"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/henry-mayhew.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}