Food History

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew interviewed the people of London’s streets for the Morning Chronicle, and this first volume, of 1851, is largely the street sellers: of fish and fruit, hot eels, pea soup, baked potatoes, coffee and much else. It is the food of those who went by the area railings, in their own words. Later volumes go further into the city’s poverty.

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Reading time

About 33 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #55998. In the public domain in the United States.