The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas

The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas

Here, through the eyes of its inhabitants, Donald Thomas portrays the nineteenth-century underworld -- one of 'night houses' and cigar divans, of street people and entertainers. The underworld was sheltered by an underclass, united with it in a hatred of the police. In its rookeries and padding-kens, gin shops and taverns, hard by the fashionable West End, thrived thieves and beggars, cheats, forgers and pickpockets, preying on rich and poor alike. Thackery wrote that the wonders of the Victorian underworld 'have been lying by your door and mine ever since we had a door of our own. We had but to go a hundred yards off and see it for ourselves, but we never did.' Her Donald Thomas pushes open that door to reveal a world at once both strange and strangely familiar.

Donald Thomas is the author of seven biographies, including 'Cardigan of Balaclava' and his best-selling life of 'Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf'. He is also a respected novelist and has won the Gregory Award for his poems 'Points of Contact'. He was born in Somerset, educated at Queen's College, Taunton and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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ISBN 13	9780719557293
ISBN 10	0719557291
Title	The Victorian Underworld
Author	Donald Thomas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year published	1999-11-04
Number of pages	352
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