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Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.

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In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slu...

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Main Author: Koven, Seth, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006, ©2004.
Subjects:
Poor > England > London > History > 19th century.
Slums > England > London > History > 19th century.
Sex customs > England > London > History > 19th century.
Voluntarism > England > London > History > 19th century.
Charities > England > London > History > 19th century.
London (England) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charities.
Poor.
Sex customs.
Slums.
Social conditions
Voluntarism.
England > London.
History.

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