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Wonderful London

Wonderful London

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Number of Chapters: 41

Length: 14 hours and 13 minutes

Language: English

"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essays, studded with conversation, on aspects of Victorian London life, seen through the eyes of a middle-class narrator.

NOTES:
1 A "ticket of leave" is a document of parole issued to convicts who can be trusted with a degree of freedom.
2 In Chapter three, a "cornopean" is a reed organ.
3 In Chapter twenty, "negus" is a drink made from port mixed with hot water, citrus fruit, spices and sugar.

(Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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The Ghosts of the London Midnight (Peter Yearsley)
The Ugliest Street in London (Peter Yearsley)
Some Curious Performers (Peter Yearsley)
At a Little Dinner in Tatter-Street (Peter Yearsley)
Saturday Night at The Cat (Peter Yearsley)
Girl Labour in London (Peter Yearsley)
The Stable Side of Mayfair (Peter Yearsley)
Opposite a Cabstand (Peter Yearsley)
A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens (Peter Yearsley)
London Society in a 'Flat' (Peter Yearsley)
The Foreign Settlement in Soho (Peter Yearsley)
Rooked in the City (Peter Yearsley)
All over London (Peter Yearsley)
Outsiders of society, and their homes in London (Peter Yearsley)
The London 'Rough' (Peter Yearsley)
Lodgers in the Suburbs (Peter Yearsley)
The Londoner's Spring (Peter Yearsley)
London Life and Country Life (Peter Yearsley)
The Last Man in Town (Peter Yearsley)
Picturesque London (Peter Yearsley)
Sketches from an Office Window (Peter Yearsley)
Half an Hour in a Servants' Registry Office (Peter Yearsley)
A shady industry (Peter Yearsley)
The vampire bride (Peter Yearsley)
Jack's delight (Peter Yearsley)
A police-court Morning Performance (Peter Yearsley)
Cockney Cave-dwellers (Peter Yearsley)
Madman's Paradise (Peter Yearsley)
Gaol-birds at Large (Peter Yearsley)
St. Valentine's Shabby Suit (Peter Yearsley)
A Young Vagabond's Vacation (Peter Yearsley)
A Beggar's Confession (Peter Yearsley)
Birds of a Feather (Peter Yearsley)
'Home-wreckers' (Peter Yearsley)
A Night With Thieves (Peter Yearsley)
The Sunday Rag-fair in the City (Peter Yearsley)
Our Poor Old Horses (Peter Yearsley)
Retired Tradesmen (Peter Yearsley)
The End of "Jack Ketch's Warren" (Peter Yearsley)
A White-glove Day (Peter Yearsley)
Ladies in the Temple (Peter Yearsley)
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