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George Hutchinson
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Username: Philip

Post Number: 482
Registered: 1-2005

Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:53 pm:

I was amazed I couldn't find a thread for this incredible work in the books part of the message boards.

I know you can read it on-line as well, but I recently won a 1907 reprint for just $4 from the US and I love it to bits.

Not only is the writing the most humane and vivid I have ever read in any work, but it is a perfect microcosm of JTR's London - and it will source for you a great deal of those famous images of the East End.

You know that famous shot of Dorset Street that is always reproduced with the woman on the left staring at the camera? From this book.

1902 image of The Ten Bells, Whitechapel Infirmary, Itchy Park, Poplar Workhouse...

Seriously, people, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is one of the best things I have ever read.

And JTR is even mentioned in passing!

PHILIP

Tour guides do it loudly in front of a crowd!

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