• Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

    Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End


This issue, guest edited by Emma Francis and Nadia Valman, revisits the Victorian East End, examining its distinctive spaces including docks, libraries, music halls, medical missions, and asylums. These essays explore fiction, photographs, street dances, diaries, investigative journalism, and texts of social investigation: they cumulatively demonstrate how the East End continues to provoke sharp questions about urban life and social progress.

Articles

Introduction: Revisiting the Victorian East End

Introduction: Revisiting the Victorian East End

Emma Francis and Nadia Valman

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

Bedraggled Ballerinas on a Bus Back to Bow: The ‘Fairy Business’

Bedraggled Ballerinas on a Bus Back to Bow: The ‘Fairy Business’

Anne Witchard

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

‘Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880–1920s

‘Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880–1920s

Ellen Ross

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

Jews in the East End, Jews in the Polity, ‘The Jew’ in the Text

Jews in the East End, Jews in the Polity, ‘The Jew’ in the Text

David Feldman

2011-12-21 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

Reading Room Geographies of Late-Victorian London: The British Museum, Bloomsbury and the People’s Palace, Mile End

Reading Room Geographies of Late-Victorian London: The British Museum, Bloomsbury and the People’s Palace, Mile End

Susan Bernstein

2012-01-02 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

‘Long Trudges Through Whitechapel’: The East End of Beatrice Webb’s and Clara Collet’s Social Investigations

‘Long Trudges Through Whitechapel’: The East End of Beatrice Webb’s and Clara Collet’s Social Investigations

Gabrielle Mearns

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture

Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture

Diana Maltz

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End

The City of Others: Photographs from the City of London Asylum Archive

The City of Others: Photographs from the City of London Asylum Archive

Caroline Bressey

2011-09-23 Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End