The Moving Pageant
Subtitle: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 18, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780415153072
First sentence: Brown (1663-1704 had a rather dubious reputation as a satirist - at least once imprisoned for libel - and as a connoisseur of the London scene, including its low life: '[his] life was as licentious as his writings', according to the Dictionary of National Biography.