Today’s Blog is a Break for a Research Moment. You know you want one! Prepare to be . . . Derailed!
Dustave Doré & Victorian London’s Suburbs
Just discovered the amazing illustrations of London by Gustave Doré. He mainly sketched the lowlife and slums from about 1860-1880.
Over London by Rail 1872 (From London- A Pilgrimage)
Low Lifes
Dudley Street Seven Dials (from London a Pilgrimage) 1872
Westminster Stairs 1872
On the London suburbs, according to contemporary guidebooks complied by Judith Flanders in The Victorian House.
- Because of a direct railway Chamberwell and Peckingham: clerks
- Hammersmith, Balham, and Leyton: lower middle class
- Penge and Ealing: middle class (no direct railway)
- Hampstead: upper middle
- St. Jon’s Wood: authors, journalists, publishers
- Tyburnia, Bayswater, Haverstock Hill, Brixton, Clapham, Kenninton, and Stockwell: city men like stockbrokers, merchants, commercial agents
- Sydenham, Highgate, Barnes, Richmond: the wealthy (swells & ladies)
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Quote of the Day:
“The most convenient arrangement I have ever tried. However, was a little electro-silver reading lamp lent me a year or two ago by a friend when I was traveling to the Scotch Highlands, and had a long night journey from town. It consisted simply of a case to hold the candle – which it exactly fitted – with a strong, self-actign spring, which raised the candle to the proper height as fast as it burnt down.”
~ Lillias Campbell Davidson (1889)