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This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.
Volume 1 Introduction and Preface, The Age of Inquiry, 1795-1850, Volume 2 Wandering Tribes, 1850-1885, Volume 3 People of the Abyss, 1885-1910, Volume 4 The Soule of Londa, 1905-1908, The Million Peopled City, 1815-1855, Volume 5 Heathenism at Home, 1855-1880, Volume 6 In Darkest England, 1880-1900, Index
Biography
John Marriott
