Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

ISBN-13: 9781551113302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str.

Stephen Donovan

Opis

The only anthology of its kind, Secret Commissions brings together key works of nineteenth-century British investigative journalism.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on Money

1. ANGUS REACH, “Labour and the Poor: The Manufacturing Districts” (1849)
2. HENRY MAYHEW, “Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts” (1849)
3. CHARLES DICKENS, “A Sleep to Startle Us” (1852)
4. HUGH SHIMMIN, “Liverpool Life” (1856)
5. JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, “London Horrors” (1861)
6. MARY CARPENTER, “On the Treatment of Female Convicts” (1863)
7. JAMES GREENWOOD, “A Night in a Workhouse” (1866)
8. “A.B.,” “Baby Farming” (1870)
9. HENRY LABOUCHERE, “Inside Newgate” (1872)
10. J. EWING RITCHIE, “In a Gipsy Camp” (1879)
11. GEORGE R. SIMS, “How the Poor Live” (1883)
12. W.T. STEAD, “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” (1885)
13. ANNIE BESANT, “White Slavery in London” (1888)
14. BEATRICE POTTER, “Pages from a Work-Girl’s Diary” (1888)
15. ELIZABETH BANKS, “In Cap and Apron” (1893)
16. HERBERT CADETT, “Massacre of the Innocents” (1895)
17. ROBERT H. SHERARD, “The White Slaves of England” (1897)
18. MARY HIGGS, “The Tramp Ward” (1904)
19. OLIVE CHRISTIAN MALVERY, “The Edge of the Street” (1904)

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