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A review by lottiezeb
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
Oh my God I finally finished this book.
"By what special virtue of your own are you different from them? How comes it that you are well clothed and well fed, whilst so many go naked and hungry?...get down from your moral stilts and confess it honestly to yourself, that you are what you are by that inscrutable grace which decreed your birthplace to be a mansion or a cottage rather than a 'padding-ken...'"
"By what special virtue of your own are you different from them? How comes it that you are well clothed and well fed, whilst so many go naked and hungry?...get down from your moral stilts and confess it honestly to yourself, that you are what you are by that inscrutable grace which decreed your birthplace to be a mansion or a cottage rather than a 'padding-ken...'"