The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-life, 1700-1914The Moving Pageant is the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by: |
Contents
PART II | 11 |
PART I | 26 |
Z C von Uffenbach from Curious Travels in Belgium Holland | 37 |
Dudley Ryder from Diary 171516 | 44 |
Daniel Defoe from Moll Flanders 1722 | 52 |
Eliza Haywood from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless 1751 | 58 |
James Boswell from London Journal 1763 | 66 |
Tobias Smollett from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 1771 | 71 |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 1863 | 145 |
A J Munby from Diaries 18634 | 147 |
Robert Buchanan from Nell 1866 | 151 |
Matthew Arnold West London 1867 | 153 |
Anon Three Broadsides 1871 | 154 |
Hippolyte Taine from Notes on England 1872 | 160 |
PART IV | 165 |
William Hale White from Mark Rutherfords Deliverance 1885 | 167 |
George Crabbe from The Poets Journal 1780 | 73 |
Sophie van la Roche from Diary 1786 | 75 |
William Blake London 1794 | 77 |
Charles Lamb from A Londoner 1802 | 78 |
William Wordsworth from The Prelude Book VII 1805 | 79 |
Robert Southey from Letters from England 1807 | 84 |
Public Entry of Mr Hunt into London The Statesman 1819 | 87 |
Pierce Egan the elder from Life in London 1821 | 89 |
Thomas De Quincey from Confessions of an OpiumEater 1821 | 91 |
William Hazlitt from On Londoners and Country People 1823 | 94 |
Robert Mudie from Babylon the Great 1825 | 96 |
Heinrich Heine from English Fragments 1828 | 98 |
Thomas De Quincey from The Nation of London Autobiographical Sketches 1834 | 100 |
Francis Place The Street Charing Cross 1835 | 102 |
PART III | 105 |
44 | 106 |
William Makepeace Thackeray from Going to See a Man Hanged 1840 | 108 |
Charles Dickens from Master Humphreys Clock 1841 | 112 |
John Fisher Murray from The World of London 1843 | 114 |
Edgar Allan Poe from A Man of the Crowd 1845 | 117 |
G W M Reynolds from The Mysteries of London 1845 | 119 |
Charles Dickens from Dombey and Son 1848 | 122 |
Angus Reach from The Lounger in Regent Street 1849 | 123 |
Henry Mayhew from Letter I to the Morning Chronicle 1849 | 126 |
Henry Mayhew from Watercress Girl London Labour and the London Poor 1851 | 127 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam VII 1850 | 130 |
Charlotte Brontë from Villette 1853 | 131 |
Charles Dickens from Bleak House 1853 | 132 |
His Fifty Years of Exile 1855 | 134 |
Charles Dickens from A Nightly Scene in London 1856 | 135 |
Charles Manby Smith from The Little World of London 1857 | 138 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne from The English Notebooks 1857 | 140 |
Another Unfortunate from Letter to The Times 1858 | 141 |
George Augustus Sala from Twice Round the Clock 1859 | 143 |
W T Stead from The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon Pall Mall Gazette 1885 | 169 |
Beatrice Potter from Diary 1886 | 172 |
47 | 174 |
Margaret Harkness from Out of Work 1888 | 176 |
Henry James from London 1888 | 178 |
George Gissing from The Nether World 1889 | 180 |
Amy Levy London in July 1889 | 183 |
Arthur Morrison from A Street 1891 | 184 |
Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 | 186 |
Charles Booth from Labour and Life of the People 1891 | 188 |
W E Henley from London Voluntaries 1892 | 190 |
J P de Oliveira Martins from The England of Today 1893 | 192 |
Charlotte Mew from Passed 1894 | 194 |
John Davidson from A Woman and Her Son 1897 | 196 |
Arnold Bennett from A Man From The North 1898 | 198 |
Clarence Rook from The Hooligan Nights 1899 | 200 |
Edgar Bateman and Eustace Baynes Two MusicHall Songs 1901 | 202 |
F G Masterman from From The Abyss 1902 | 205 |
Sigurd Frosterus from London Rhapsody 1903 | 208 |
A Book of Aspects 1903 | 211 |
Ford H Hueffer from The Soul of London 1905 | 213 |
Olive C Malvery from The Soul Market 1906 | 215 |
Beckles Willson George R Sims from Which is the Most Interesting London Street? 1907 | 217 |
Joseph Conrad from The Secret Agent 1907 | 220 |
51 | 222 |
H G Wells from TonoBungay 1909 | 223 |
H G Wells from Ann Veronica 1909 | 226 |
Yoshio Markino from A Japanese Artist in London 1910 | 228 |
The March Through London Manchester Guardian 1913 | 230 |
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The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914 Rick Allen Limited preview - 2006 |
The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914 Rick Allen Limited preview - 2006 |
The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-life, 1700-1914 Rick Allen No preview available - 1998 |