Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the habit of assembling. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
The costermongers’ boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
