Henry Mayhew: the statistical Dickens |
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| Authors: | Julian Champkin |
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| Affiliation: | A selection from London Labour and the London poor;by Henry Mayhew is published by Penguin Classics (ISBN 978 0 140 43241 1, £It includes the original illustrations from Mayhew's work reproduced in this article. |
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| Abstract: | There is a long and honourable tradition of statisticians labouring to reveal the plight of the poor and the disadvantaged. There were few more disadvantaged than the poor of Charles Dickens's London. And Henry Mayhew was, … well, he was nearly a statistician. Julian Champkin explains. |
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