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Henry Mayhew (1812–1887)

Auteur de London Labour and the London Poor [abridged - Neuburg]

67+ oeuvres 1,821 utilisateurs 18 critiques 2 Favoris

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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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor [abridged - Neuburg] (1985) — Writer — 343 exemplaires
London characters and crooks (1995) 182 exemplaires
London's Underworld (1950) — Writer — 141 exemplaires
Of Street Piemen (1800) 135 exemplaires
Mayhew's London (1951) — Writer — 131 exemplaires
The Unknown Mayhew (1971) — Writer — 83 exemplaires
Mayhew's Characters (1960) — Writer — 53 exemplaires
Selections from London Labour and the London Poor (1965) — Writer — 46 exemplaires
London Labour and the London Poor (2010) 39 exemplaires
Punch (The London Charivari) Vol. 2 (January - June 1842) (1842) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Punch Or the London Charivari: Volume the Fourth (January to June, 1843) (1842) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Tales from Victorian London (2013) 2 exemplaires
Punch, Volume X 1 exemplaire
Henry Mayhew's London 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Bleak House [Norton Critical Edition] (1977) — Contributeur — 307 exemplaires
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 214 exemplaires
The Victorian Underworld (1998) 194 exemplaires
The Portable Victorian Reader (1972) — Contributeur — 176 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1812-11-25
Date de décès
1887-07-25
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
London, England, UK
Lieu du décès
London, UK
Lieux de résidence
London, England, UK
Paris, France
Études
Westminster School, London
Professions
journalist
sociologist
reformer
playwright
Relations
Mayhew, Augustus (brother)
Organisations
Punch magazine (co-founder)

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This copy has been given to Lisa Davy, prize for neatness, punctuality & deportment, Xmas '75.
 
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jon1lambert | Mar 10, 2024 |
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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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pgchuis | Sep 27, 2023 |
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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TheCrow2 | 6 autres critiques | Aug 17, 2023 |

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