Henry Mayhew (1812–1887)
Autor de London Labour and the London Poor [abridged - Neuburg]
Sobre El Autor
Henry Mayhew had a varied career as a London writer of the mid-Victorian period. He was the son of a London solicitor, Joshua Mayhew, who reputedly was a rather tyrannous father. Apparently, Henry was a bitter disappointment to his father; the younger Mayhew had been educated at the Westminster mostrar más School but, in objection to a flogging he had received, ran away from school and went to sea for a year. On his return, he was articled to his father but after three years, he abandoned the law to seek a career as a journalist and a dramatist. Mayhew achieved some early success as a dramatist, most notably with his 1834 farce, "The Wandering Minstrel." In the late 1830's, he was the joint editor of a successful satirical weekly, Figaro in London, and later helped to found Figaro's most significant and long-lived successor, Punch. Evidently, a fairly serious rift developed between Mayhew and his magazine colleagues, although the details of this falling-out remain a mystery---one of the many unanswered questions about Mayhew's life. Mayhew was never without financial worries, and, as a means of making quick money, he collaborated on a number of comic novels with his younger brother, Augustus (1826--75). Their most successful work is "The Greatest Plague of Life" (1847), which was issued in monthly numbers and proved very popular. They followed it with "Whom to Marry and How to Get Married" (1848); later Mayhew singly authored 1851, or, "The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandbags 1851," (1851). Mayhew's attempt, in 1851, to publish the 82 "letters" he had written for the Morning Chronicle, in which he investigates the plight of London's urban poor, was a financial failure. They were issued in 1861, however, in four volumes under the title London Labour and the London Poor. It is for this classic work that Mayhew is today best known. In it, he unhesitatingly depicts the opprobrium under which most of the London working classes led their lives. In many ways, London Labour and the London Poor epitomizes the Victorian tendency to be simultaneously repulsed and fascinated by the working classes, the "Great Unwashed" huddled together in the urban centers of England. Along with Edwin Chadwick and J.P. Kay-Shuttleworth, Mayhew stands as one of the earliest of urban sociologists. Although recent years have witnessed an increase in interest in Henry Mayhew, a "definitive" biography remains to be written. The introductions to his work, notably John Rosenberg's preface to the Dover facsimile edition of London Labour and the London Poor and the essays framing the edition of "The Unknown Mayhew," are good sources of information. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Henry Mayhew
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes (v.… (2005) 160 copias
The Greatest Plague of Life, or, The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant (2017) 7 copias
The Boyhood of Martin Luther: Or the Sufferings of the Heroic Little Beggar-Boy Who Afterwards Became the Great German… (2007) 6 copias
The morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor. the metropolitan districts / Volume 3 (1981) 6 copias
The Morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts. Volume 4 (1981) 4 copias
Morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor. the metropolitan districts / Volume 2 (1981) 4 copias
The morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor. the metropolitan districts / Volume I (1980) 4 copias
Whom to Marry and How to get Married! or, The Adventures of a Lady in search of a good husband 4 copias
1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who came up to London to Enjoy Themselves, and to See the… (2017) 4 copias
The story of the peasant-boy philosopher: or, "A child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore." (Founded on the early life… (1856) 3 copias
The morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor. the metropolitan districts / Volume 6 (1982) 3 copias
The morning chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts. Volume 5 (1982) 3 copias
Mayhew's London + Mayhew's Characters + London's Underworld — Writer — 2 copias
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volumes 33-36, July 1857 to June 1859, [in 1 volume] (1857) 2 copias
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volumes 41-44, July 1861 to June 1863, [in 1 volume] (1861) 2 copias
Voices of the poor : selections from the Morning Chronicle Labour and the poor (1849-1850) (2013) 2 copias
The great world of London 1 copia
Punch, Volume X 1 copia
Young Benjamin Franklin 1 copia
Henry Mayhew's London 1 copia
The World's Show 1851, or the Adventures of Mr. And Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to "Enjoy… (2016) 1 copia
[The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: or, "a Child gathering pebbles on the sea shore."] 1 copia
Labour and the Poor Volume I: The Metropolitan Districts (1) (The Morning Chronicle's Labour and the Poor) (2020) 1 copia
Labour and the Poor Volume II: The Metropolitan Districts (2) (The Morning Chronicle's Labour and the Poor) (2020) 1 copia
Of the London Chimney-Sweepers 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Doré's London: All 180 Images from the Original London Series with Selected Writings (2008) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
Les visiteurs du pauvre: anthologie d'enquêtes britanniques sur la pauvreté urbaine, 19e-20e… (2000) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1812-11-25
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1887-07-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Educación
- Westminster School, London
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
sociologist
reformer
playwright - Relaciones
- Mayhew, Augustus (brother)
- Organizaciones
- Punch magazine (co-founder)
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The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: or, "a… por Henry Mayhew
This copy has been given to Lisa Davy, prize for neatness, punctuality & deportment, Xmas '75.
I was supposed to be reading chapters 1 and 5 and skimming chapter 4 for my course, but have been defeated. I was briefly interested in the sub-sections on the lives of costermongers, and I am heartened by Mayhew's realization that the best way to improve the 'morality' of the poor is not to give them tracts they can't read. But... then I was bored and got bogged down in the rest. Hopefully the course materials will bring this to life. I understand it was initially published section by section and that would make it more readable.… (más)
Short essays about the life some of the working class in the Victorian London. Interesting read although sometimes full with dry details.
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