Nonfiction

Complete Bound Copy of The London Miscellany, vol. 1 (1866).

December, 2021

To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.  This copy lacks the series of four promotional color prints titled Rich and Poor and accompanying the serial of that name; these prints are accessible elsewhere in this COVE edition.

London Labour and the London Poor

Henry Mayhew is known for his investigations into the culture, labour, and suffering of poor London labourers and street-folk at the mid-nineteenth century. Mayhew and his collaborators produced a rich body of detailed material, but the complexity, disorganization, and sheer volume of the project make it a difficult text to work with. This selected edition foregrounds the collaborative, multimodal, and multivocal development of the collection of texts compiled under the London Labour and the London Poor name. The edition includes selections from the preceding 'Labour and the Poor' series in the Morning Chronicle, excerpts from texts by the Mayhew team which recycled material from the core text of London Labour, and a table of contents detailing the entirety of the London Labour project.

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