The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict. - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Thomas Archer,
1 / 15Chapter 1 - Introductory
- 1. Chapter 1 - Introductory
- 2. Chapter 2 - Amongst the poor
- 3. Chapter 3, part 1 - Parochial relief
- 4. Chapter 3, part 2 - Parochial relief
- 5. Chapter 4 - A London workhouse
- 6. Chapter 5 - Land rats and water rats
- 7. Chapter 6, part 1 - The never silent highway
- 8. Chapter 6, part 2 - The never silent highway
- 9. Chapter 7 - Tiger Bay
- 10. Chapter 8 - Weasels asleep
- 11. Chapter 9 - The house of correction
- 12. Chapter 10 - The gaol of Newgate
- 13. Chapter 11 - The convict in penal servitude - Millbank
- 14. Chapter 12 - Pentonville prison
- 15. Chapter 13 - The convict establishment at Portland
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"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sights which are sometimes touched upon in newspaper articles, or in the chapters of sensational stories, but whose dread meaning and fullest horror lie in that very blank routine of misery which most lacks interest." (from the introduction.) The author exposes the underside of poverty and crime, and expresses strong opinions about its causes and possible remedies: "The repressor of the unwilling pauper is often the owner of those foul tenements which disgrace the parish ...." - Summary by (from the introduction) and Peter Yearsley
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