Description: Title: Low Life in Victorian Edinburgh Author: By a Medical Gentleman Publisher: Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh______________________________________________________________ Year: 1980 (Reproduction of an original 1851 publication)Number of Pages: 127Size: 13cm Width x 19cm HeightContentsA rare and unusual title looking at the seedy underbelly of Scotland's capital taking in crime, prostitution and mysterious antics of the night. Eight chapters of sin and debauchery:Chapter 1: Opening Considerations - The High Street Closes - Blackfriar's Wynd - Three Hopefuls - Eating Houses - The Street Stalls & Their Keepers - More Misery - The Daughters of the NightChapter 2: General Appearance of the Wynds - Blackfrairs Wynd Continued - A Lodging House - Haunts of Fever and It's Victims - Sanitary Remarks - The Brothel - Dram Shops and their Frequenters - Toddricks Wynd - Destitution - Crime in the Wynds - The Dancing School and its PupilsChapter 3: The High Street Closes Continued - Their General Sameness - A Household in Menteith's Close - How to Live on Three Shillings a Week - The Lemonade Vendor - Homes for the Working ClassesChapter 4: Leith Wynd - Its General Appearance - A Sketch From Life - The "Holy" - The "Happy" and "Just" Lands - Fancy Men - Furnished Rooms, And Their Rents - Furniture of the Rooms and Domestic Life of he Inmates - A Hot Bed for Pestilence - Sanitary WarningsChapter 5: Another Visit to Leith Wynd - A Gill Among Three - How to Obtain Counsel for a Thief - A Thieves Raffle - No Honour Among Thieves - Up to Every Move and Down to Every DodgeChapter 6: What Night Houses Formerly Were - The Excise and Police - The Coffin - The Grave - The Poets Corner - The Effects of the Police Act - Shifts and Dodges to Evade ItChapter 7: Halkerstons Wynd - The Laundress - Mary Anne R - The Story of Magdalene - The Frequency of Robberies in BrothelsChapter 8: The Great Night for Destitution and Crime in Edinburgh - Saturday Night in the Highstreet - The Scottish Costermongers - The Variety of Characters etc. New Book. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on covers and spine. Illustrated throughout. Payment & Shipping Free shipping within the UK; Worldwide shipping rates can be seen via the shipping calculator tab. Items will usually be posted within 2 days of auction/listing end.
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Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Non-Fiction Subject: Topography & Local Interest
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Region: Europe
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Year Printed: 1980
