Overview

'HARD STREETS is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned' Hallie Rubenhold, author of THE FIVECharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty.Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.

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Praise for Hogarth: Wonderfully meandering and original * Guardian * Deft and richly detailed * Sunday Times * An excellent new biography -- Kathryn Hughes * Daily Mail * Marvellous and timely ... Jacqueline Riding makes sensitive and imaginative use of a wide range of often difficult and neglected sources ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction -- Linda Colley, author * The Gun, The Ship and the Pen *

An enthralling journey through some of London's hardest streets, in the company of a writer of integrity and passion -- Lucy Worsley Praise for Hogarth: Wonderfully meandering and original * Guardian * Deft and richly detailed * Sunday Times * An excellent new biography -- Kathryn Hughes * Daily Mail * Marvellous and timely ... Jacqueline Riding makes sensitive and imaginative use of a wide range of often difficult and neglected sources ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction -- Linda Colley, author * The Gun, The Ship and the Pen *

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Dr Jacqueline Riding is a historian and art historian specialising in British history and eighteenth century art. Former curator of the Palace of Westminster and Director of the Handel House Museum, her previous book Hogarth: A Life in Progress was a Sunday Times and Christie's Art Book of the Year.

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