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Henry Mayhew and collaborators explored the back streets of London during the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humbler residents. This extract focuses on the criminal class, whose true stories of degradation, horror, and desperation rival Dickensian fiction.Mayhew, Henry is the author of 'London Underworld In The Victorian Period Authentic First-person Accounts By Beggars, Thieves And Prostitutes', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486440064 and ISBN 0486440060.
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