Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

Further Reading

Mayhew’s London, by Henry Mayhew, edited by Peter Quennell. (Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1969)

The Scandal of the Andover Workhouse, by Ian Anstruther (Alan Sutton, 1984)

The Workhouse System 1834-1929, by M. A. Crowther (Batsford, 1981)

The People of the Abyss, by Jack London (London, 1903)

The Poor Law, by S. Styles (Macmillan, 1985)

Outcast London, by G. Jones, edited by G. Steadman (Oxford, 1971)

In Darkest London, by William Booth (London, 1890)

The Life and Labour of the Poor (nine vols.), by Charles Booth (London, 1880-1892)

Pauper Palaces, by Ann Digby (Routledge, 1978)

The Workhouse, by Norman Longmate (Maurice Temple-Smith, 1974)

Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell

The Victorian Workhouse, by Trevor May (Shire Publication, 1997)

The English Poor Law 1780-1930, by Michael Rose (David and Charles, 1971)

Into Unknown England 1866-1913, edited by Peter Keating (Fontana/ Collins, 1976)

‘The Homeless’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)

‘On the Verge of the Abyss’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)

‘The Submerged Tenth’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)

‘The Bitter Cry of Outcast London’, by Andrew Mearns (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1883)

‘A Night in a Workhouse’, by James Greenwood (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1866)

Workhouses of the North, by Peter Higginbotham (Tempus Publications, 1999)