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Hard streets : working-class lives in Charlie Chaplin's London

Riding, Jacqueline2026
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Charlie 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, 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.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2026.
Collation:
432 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781800818644 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
305.562094305.562
Language:
English
Related title:
Hard Streets [electronic resource] : Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London
BRN:
9047878
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Whitton LibraryAdult non-fiction305.562SocietyOn order
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