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
Emma Francis and Nadia Valman
Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End
Bedraggled Ballerinas on a Bus Back to Bow: The ‘Fairy Business’
Anne Witchard
Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End
‘Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880–1920s
Ellen Ross
Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End
Jews in the East End, Jews in the Polity, ‘The Jew’ in the Text
David Feldman
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
Susan Bernstein
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
Gabrielle Mearns
Issue 13 • 2011 • Revisiting the Victorian East End