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- Life as a 19th century fire-eater
Last year I read Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (Amazon US, UK, or the full text online) which was written around 1850 and is his journalistic attempt to chronicle the lives of poor working (and non-working) inhabitants of the city. There were a couple of passages that were even more eye-opening than the rest, which I meant to publish here. Here's the first one, from Mayhew's interview with a man who usually earned his living as a fire-eater on the streets:
In Misc on 8 June 2003. 2 comments. Permalink