Street Life in London: People of Victorian England - With Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken From Life Expressly For This Publication

The authors of this book invented photojournalism as they roamed through London creating this book, which was first published in 1878, with Thomson taking pictures and Smith interviewing and writing about the poor people they met on the streets. Smith wrote that, by talking to the poor in this same way,

"Dickens acquired his marvellous stores of material and knowledge of the people. Exaggerated as some of his characters may seem, their prototypes are constantly coming on the scene."

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