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Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1861) Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days.
Henry Mayhew serviu-se de sua profissão, o jornalismo, para registrar o dia a dia da Londres da segunda metade do século XIX de uma forma que até hoje interessa historiadores e cientistas sociais, como obra precursora da pesquisa qualitativa.
- Everardo Duarte Nunes
- 2012
Henry Mayhew (born 1812, London, England—died July 25, 1887, London) was an English journalist and sociologist, a founder of the magazine Punch (1841), who was a vivid and voluminous writer best known for London Labour and the London Poor, 4 vol. (1851–62).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s, he observed, documented and described the state of working people in London for a series of articles in a newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, which were later compiled into book form.
- Henry Mayhew
- 1840
Henry Mayhew serviu-se de sua profissão, o jornalismo, para registrar o dia a dia da Londres da segunda metade do século XIX de uma forma que até hoje interessa historiadores e cientistas sociais, como obra precursora da pesquisa qualitativa.
Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with London’s street traders, entertainers, thieves and beggars which revealed that the ‘two nations’ of rich and poor in Victorian Britain were much closer than many people thought.
1 de dez. de 2014 · This article introduces a special issue of Journal of Victorian Culture that re-evaluates the life and work of Henry Mayhew, the journalist, social explorer and author of London Labour and the London Poor. It argues for a more intertextual and contextual approach to Mayhew's corpus and surveys the existing scholarship on him.
