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Books written about Victorian London, with particular emphasis on social conditions, women's issues, crime and the East End.

Victorian London

All Sorts and Conditions of Men
Besant, Walter
Oxford University Press, 1997

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Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in Late Victorian London
Banks, Elizabeth L.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

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Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London
Joyce, Simon
University of Virginia Press, 2003

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Child of the Jago, A
Morrison, Arthur
Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1996

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East End 1888
Fishman, William J.
Duckworth, 1988

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East End : Four Centuries of London Life, The
Palmer, Alan
Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000

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Family and Kinship in East London
Young, Michael and Peter Wilmott
University of California Press, 1992

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Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889: The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation, The
Owen, David Edward
Harvard University Press, 1982

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London 1849 : A Victorian Murder Story
Alpert, Michael
Pearson Longman, 2004

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My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London
James R. Kincaid, James Jennings
Signet, 1996

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Night in a Workhouse, A
Greenwood, James
Pall Mall Gazette, 1866

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People of the Abyss
London, Jack
Macmillan, 1903

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Poor Womens Lives : Gender, Work, and Poverty in Late-Victorian London
August, Andrew
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999

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Rothschild Buildings
White, Jerry
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980

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Seven Curses of London, The
Greenwood, James
Stanley Rivers, 1869

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Sin, Organized Charity, and the Poor Law in Victorian England
Humphreys, Robert
St. Martin's Press, 1995

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Tales of Mean Streets
Morrison, Arthur
Academy Chicago Publishers, 1997

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Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Eigen, Joel Peter
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2003

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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Nead, Lynda
Yale University Press, 2000

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Victorian Household, A
Nicholson, Shirley
Sutton Publishing, 1998

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Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
Thomson, John
Dover Publications, 1994

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Victorian Pubs
Girouard, Mark
Yale University Press, 1984

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