The Victorian City

by Judith Flanders

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  Bullen, Frank, Confessions of a Tradesman (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908)

  Callow, Edward, Old London Taverns: Historical, descriptive and Reminiscent ... (London, Downey & Co., 1899)

  Carlyle, Thomas and Jane, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Charles Richard Sanders, Kenneth J. Fielding, et al., vol. 7 (Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1977)

  Carr, Henry, Metropolitan Street Traffic: Suggested Improvements (London, R. J. Mitchell and Sons, 1871)

  [Carter, T.], Memoirs of a Working Man (London, Charles Knight, 1845)

  —, A Continuation of the Memoirs of a Working Man (London, Charles Cox, 1850)

  Chadwick, Edwin, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, ed. M. W. Flinn (first published 1842; Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1965)

  Chesterton, George Laval, Revelations of Prison Life (3rd edn, London, Hurst and Blackett, 1857)

  Clarke, James Freeman, Eleven Weeks in Europe: and, What May be Seen in that Time (Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852)

  [Clarke, W. S.], The Suburban Homes of London, A Residential Guide ... (London, Chatto and Windus, 1881)

  The Cockchafer. A Choice Selection of Flash, Frisky, and Funny Songs ... Adapted for Gentlemen Only ... (first published 1836; London, W. West [?1865])

  Collier, John Payne, An Old Man’s Diary, Forty Years Ago, ‘for strictly private circulation’, 2 vols (London, Thomas Richards, 1871–2)

  Colman, Henry, European Life and Manners; or, Familiar Letters to Friends (Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850)

  Colton, Calvin, Four Years in Great Britain, 1831–5 (2nd edn, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1836)

  Cooper, J. Fenimore, Recollections of Europe (London, Richard Bentley, 1837)

  Corbett, Edward, ‘Colonel late Shropshire Militia’, An Old Coachman’s Chatter, with some Practical Remarks on Driving, ‘by a semi-professional’ (facsimile of 2nd edn [?1894], Wakefield, E. P. Publishing, 1974)

  Coxe, Revd A. Cleveland, Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society (New York, Dana & Co., 1856)

  Cruikshank, George, Metropolitan Grievances; or, A Serio-Comic Glance at Minor Mischief in London..., ‘by one who thinks for himself’ (London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812)

  —, Scraps and Sketches (London, published by the artist, 1828)

  The Cuckold’s Nest, of Choice, Flash, Smutty and Delicious Songs ... Adapted for Gentlemen Only (first published c.1837; London, W. West, [?1865])

  [Derby, Elias], Two Months Abroad: or, A Trip to England, France, Baden, Prussia, and Belgium, in August and September, 1843, ‘by a Rail-road Director of Massachusetts’ (Boston, Redding & Co., 1844)

  De Quincey, Thomas, The English Mail-Coach and Other Essays (London, J. M. Dent, 1961)

  Dickinson, Andrew, My First Visit to Europe ... (New York, George P. Putnam, 1851)

  Disraeli, Benjamin, Benjamin Disraeli, Letters, ed. M. G. Wiebe et al., vol. 3, 1838–1841; vol. 6, 1852–1856 (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987, 1997)

  Dixon, Hepworth, The London Prisons (London, Jackson and Walford, 1850)

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, trans. David Patterson (Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1997)

  [Duncombe, J.], The Dens of London Exposed (London, privately printed, 1835), in Marriott (ed.), Unknown London, pp. 271–383

  Eddy, Daniel C., Europa, or, Scenes and Society in England, France, Italy and Switzerland (Boston, N. L. Dayton, Higgins & Bradley, 1856)

  Edwards, Percy, History of London Street Improvements, 1855–1897 (London, London County Council, 1898)

  Edwards, Revd John E., Random Sketches and Notes of European Travel in 1856 (New York, Harper and Brothers, 1857)

  Egan, Pierce, Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, ‘printed for the editor’, 1823)

  —, [and George and Robert Cruikshank], Life in London, or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom ... (London, Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1821)

  Elmes, James, Metropolitan Improvements; or, London in the Nineteenth Century ... (London, Jones & Co., 1829)

  Elson, George, The Last of the Climbing Boys: An Autobiography (London, John Long, 1900)

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ‘English Traits’, in The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870)

  Every Night Book; or, Life After Dark, ‘by the author of “The Cigar”’ (London, T. Richardson, 1828)

  The Flash Chaunter ... now singing at Offley’s, Cider Cellers [sic], Coal Hole, &c ... . (first published c.1834; London, W. West [?1865])

  Fletcher, Hanslip, London Passed and Passing: A Pictorial Record of Destroyed and Threatened Buildings (London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1908)

  Forbes, Mrs E. A., A Woman’s First Impressions of Europe ... (New York, Derby & Miller, 1865)

  Forney, John, Letters from Europe (Philadelphia, T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1867)

  Forster, John, The Life of Charles Dickens, 3 vols (London, Chapman and Hall, 1872–4)

  Frost, Thomas, The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs (London, Tinsley Brothers, 1874)

  Gardner, Fitzroy, Days and Ways of an Old Bohemian (London, John Murray, 1921)

  Garwood, John, The Million Peopled City, or, One-half of the People of London Made Known to the Other Half (London, Wertheim and Macintosh, 1853)

  Gavin, Hector, Sanitary Ramblings: Being Sketches and Illustrations of Bethnal Green (London, John Churchill, 1848)

  Godwin, George, London Shadows: A Glance at the ‘Homes’ of the Thousands (London, George Routledge, 1854)

  —, Another Blow for Life (London, Wm H. Allen, 1864)

  Gotch, Rosamund Brunel (ed.), Mendelssohn and his Friends in Kensington: Letters ... 1833–36 (London, Oxford University Press, 1934)

  Grant, James, Sketches in London (London, W. S. Orr, 1838)

  Greenwood, James, Unsentimental Journeys: or, Byways of the Modern Babylon (London, Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1867)

  —, The Seven Curses of London (London, Stanley Rivers [1869])

  —, In Strange Company: Being the Experience of a Roving Correspondent (Edinburgh, Henry S. King & Co., 1873)

  —, The Wilds of London (London, Chatto and Windus, 1874)

  —, Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There (London, Chatto and Windus, 1876)

  [—], ‘A Night in a Workhouse’, reprinted in pamphlet form from the Pall Mall Gazette (London, F. Bowering [n.d.])

  Greville, Charles, The Greville Diary..., ed. Philip Whitwell Wilson (London, William Heinemann, 1927)

  Gronow, Captain, Reminiscences of Captain Gronow ... (London, Smith, Elder, 1862)

  Hall, Fanny W., Rambles in Europe ... (New York, E. French, 1839)

  Hall, S. C., Retrospect of a Long Life, 1815–83 (London, Bentley and Son, 1883)

  Harben, Henry, A Dictionary of London: Being Notes Topographical and Historical Relating to the Streets ... in the City of London (London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918)

  Hare, Augustus, Walks in London (London, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878)

  Harling, Robert (ed.), The London Miscellany: A Nineteenth Century Scrapbook (London, William Heinemann, 1937)

  [Harvey, William], London Scenes and London People..., ‘by Aleph’ (London, W. H. Collingridge, 1863)

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Hawthorne in England: Selections from Our Old Home and The English Note-books, ed. C
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  Haydon, Benjamin Robert, Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ... from his Autobiography and Journals, ed. Tom Taylor, 3 vols (New York, Harper and Brothers, 1853)

  Hayward, Arthur, The Days of Dickens: A Glance at Some Aspects of Early Victorian Life in London (London, George Routledge and Sons, 1926)

  Headley, Joel, Rambles and Sketches (New York, Baker and Scribner, 1850)

  Health of Towns Association, The Sanitary Condition of the City of London ... with the Sub-Committee’s Reply ... (London, W. Clowes, 1848)

  [Heath, Henry], The Caricaturist’s Scrap Book: Omnium Gatherum ([London], no publisher [1840])

  Hékékyan, Joseph, Journal, 1829–30, British Library, Add MSS 37,448

  Hindley, Charles, History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern (London, Reeves and Turner, 1881)

  —, (ed.), The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, by One of the Fraternity (London, Tinsley Brothers, 1876)

  Hints to Men about Town, ‘by The Old Medical Student’ (Liverpool, George Davis, 1840)

  Hogg, John, London as it is, Being a Series of Observations on the Health, Habits, and Amusements of the People (London, John Macrone, 1837)

  Hollingshead, John, Underground London (London, Groombridge, 1862)

  —, My Lifetime, 2 vols (London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1895)

  [Holloway, Robert], The Phoenix of Sodom ... the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Letchers of ... The Vere St Coterie (London, J. Cook [1813])

  Hook, Theodore Edward, Gilbert Gurney (London, Whittaker & Co., 1836))

  Hoppin, James M., Old England: Its Scenery, Art, and People (New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1867)

  [Horne, Richard H.], ‘The Fire Brigade of London’, Household Words, 7, 11 May 1850, pp. 145–51

  [—], ‘Address from an Undertaker to the Trade’, Household Words, 13, 22 June 1850, pp. 301–4

  [—], ‘Dust, or Ugliness Redeemed’, Household Words, 16, 13 July 1850, pp. 379–84

  [—], ‘The Cow with the Iron Tail’, Household Words, 33, 9 November 1850, pp. 145–51

  [—], ‘Father Thames’, Household Words, 45, 1 February 1851, pp. 445–9

  Horwitz, Orville, Brushwood Picked Up on the Continent: or, Last Summer’s Trip to the Old World (Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855)

  Household Words, ‘Heathen and Christian Burial’, 1, 6 April 1850, pp. 43–8

  —, ‘Penny Wisdom’, 6, 16 October 1852, pp. 97–101

  —, ‘Piping Days’, 10, 14 October 1854, pp. 196–9

  —, ‘Important Rubbish’, 11, 19 May 1855, pp. 376–9

  —, ‘Wild Court Tamed’, 12, 25 August 1855, pp. 85–7

  —, ‘Turpin’s Corner’, 17, 8 May 1858, pp. 493–6

  —, ‘Dirty Cleanliness’, 18, 24 July 1858, pp. 121–3

  —, ‘Life and Death in St Giles’s’, 18, 13 November 1858, pp. 524–8

  Hughes, William R., A Week’s Tramp in Dickens-Land: Together with Personal Reminiscences of the ‘Inimitable Boz’ (London, Chapman & Hall, 1891)

  Hughson, David [pseud. of David Pugh], Circuit of London, in 6 vols (London, James Robins [?1825])

  Humphrey, Heman D. D., Great Britain, France and Belgium: A Short Tour in 1835 (NY, Harper & Brothers, 1838)

  Hunt, Leigh, Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, vol. 1 (London, Charles Knight, 1834)

  Jerrold, Blanchard, and Gustave Doré, London: A Pilgrimage, intro. by Peter Ackroyd (first published 1872; London, Anthem Press, 2005)

  Kirkland, Mrs [Caroline], Holidays Abroad; or, Europe from the West (New York, Baker and Scribner, 1849)

  Kirwan, Daniel Joseph, Palace and Hovel: or, Phases of London Life..., ed. A. Allan (first published 1870; London, Abelard-Schuman, 1963)

  Kitchiner, William, The Traveller’s Oracle; or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures ... of Travellers (London, Henry Colburn, 1828)

  Kitton, Frederic G., Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil, and A Supplement (London, Frank T. Sabin, 1890)

  Knight, Charles (ed.), London, 6 vols (London, Charles Knight, 1841–4)

  [—], ‘Illustrations of Cheapness: The Lucifer Match’, Household Words, 3, 13 April, pp. 54–6

  Lamb, Charles, The Essays of Elia (London, Edward Moxon, 1849)

  Latrobe, John H. B., Hints for Six Months in Europe ... (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, & Co., 1869)

  Leeves, Edward, Leaves from a Victorian Diary, intro. by John Sparrow (London, Secker & Warburg, 1985)

  Leigh’s New Picture of London ... (London, Leigh and Co., 1818 and 1839)

  Leighton, John, London Cries & Public Edifices from Sketches on the Spot (London, Grant and Griffith [1847])

  [Lewis, John Delaware], ‘A Voice from a ‘Quiet’ Street’, Household Words, 31, 26 October 1850, pp. 143–4

  [—], ‘City Graves’, Household Words, 38, 14 December 1850, p. 277

  Liddle, John, On the Moral and Physical Evils Resulting from the Neglect of Sanitary Measures ... (London, Health of Towns Association Depot, 1847)

  Lillywhite, Bryant, London Coffee Houses: A Reference Book of Coffee Houses of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London, George Allen and Unwin, 1963)

  London by Night, or, The Bachelor’s Facetious Guide to All the Ins and Outs and the Nightly Doings of the Metropolis ... (London, William Ward [?1857])

  The London Guide, and Stranger’s Safeguard..., ‘by a Gentleman’ (London, Bumpus, 1818), in J. Marriott (ed.), Unknown London

  Loudon, J. C., An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture ... (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833)

  Lovett, William, The Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom ... (London, Trübner & Co., 1876)

  McCarthy, Justin, Reminiscences (London, Chatto & Windus, 1899)

  [MacKenzie, Alexander], The American in England (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1835)

  McLelland, Henry B., Journal of a Residence in Scotland and Tour through England ... (Boston, Allen and Ticknor, 1834)

  Marriott, John (ed.), Unknown London: Early Modernist Visions of the Metropolis, 1815–45, 6 vols (London, Pickering and Chatto, 2000)

  Marriott, John, and Masaie Matsumura (eds), The Metropolitan Poor: Semi-factual Accounts, 1795–1910 (London, Pickering and Chatto, 1999)

  Masson, David, Memories of London in the ’Forties, ed. Flora Masson (Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1908)

  Mathews, Mrs [Nancy], Tea-Table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1857)

  Matthews, James N., My Holiday: How I Spent it ... in the Summer of 1866 (Buffalo, Martin Taylor, 1867)

  Mayhew, Augustus, Paved with Gold, or, The Romance and Reality of the London Streets (London, Chapman and Hall, 1858)

  Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor (New York, Dover, 1968; facsimile of Griffin, Bohn edition, 1861–2)

  —, The Shops and Companies of London, and the Grades and Manufactories of Great Britain (London, The Second Printing and Publishing Co., 1865)

  —, The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849–50, ed. E. P. Thompson and Eileen Yeo (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973)

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  Meadows, Kenny [illus.], Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, ‘with original essays by distinguished writers’ (London, Willoughby & Co. [1840])

  Melville, Herman, Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent, 1849–1850, ed. Eleanor Melville Metcalf (London, Cohen & West, 1949)

  Miller, David Prince, The Life of a Showman ... (London, Lacy, 1849)

  Miller, Hugh, First Impressions of England and its People (London, John Johnstone, 1847)
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  —, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair (London, Frederick Warne & Co. [n.d.])

  [—], ‘Death’s Doors’, Household Words, 9, 10 June 1854, pp. 398–402

  Munby, Arthur, Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby, 1828–1910, ed. Derek Hudson (London, John Murray, 1972)

  Murray, John Fisher, The World of London, 2 vols (Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1843)

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  —, Autobiography of a Fast Man (London, published ‘for the Proprietors’, 1863)

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  Phillips, Watts, The Wild Tribes of London (London, Ward and Lock, 1855)

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  Poyntz, Albany, ‘The Physiology of London Life: The London Hotel-Keeper’, Bentley’s Miscellany, 15, 1844, pp. 52–7