The streets
By: by Anthony Quinn
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780224096911; 9781448130078; 9780224096928
Subjects: Social conditions; Englisch; London (England) Social conditions 19th century Fiction; Historischer Roman; Fiction
Description: In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an 'inspector' for Henry Marchmont's hugely successful weekly "The Labouring Classes of London", his job is to investigate the notorious slum of Somers Town, near the new St Pancras Station, recording house by house the number of inhabitants, their occupations and standard of living. By mapping the streets in this way, Marchmont intends to show the world the stark realities of poverty in its greatest city.