Statement of a Photographic Man

By Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor, volume III, 1861.

I’ve been on and off at photographic-portrait taking since its commencement—that is to say, since they were taken cheap—two years…

The Spectator, No. 26

By Joseph Addison. Friday, March 30, 1711.

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres, O beate Sexti!
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Jam te premet nox, fabulæque manes,
Et domus exilis Plutonia…

The Fool of the Forth

By Lady Gregory. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, second series, 1920.

I was told by:

A Woman Bringing Oysters from the Strand:

Girls’ School Annual Excursion

The Monthly News of the Leeds Mechanics’ Institution and Literary Society, July 1865.

The annual treat to the pupils of the Girls’ School of the Leeds Mechanics’ Institution, which is looked…

Sporting Anecdotes

By Pierce Egan. 1804.

The Duke de Nivernois

When this accomplished cidevant nobleman was ambassador to England, he was going to lord Townsend’s seat, at Rainham, in Norfolk, on a private visit, en dishabille, and…

Science in the New Century

By Frederick Dolman. The Strand Magazine, January, 1901.

Sir William Crookes, with whom I had a short conversation in his working-room—half laboratory and half study—at his residence in Kensington Park Gardens, declared…

Seeing a Man Hanged

By J. Ewing Ritchie. The Night Side of London, 1857.

I am not about to give an opinion as to the propriety or impropriety of capital punishments. On this point good men have differed, and will differ, I dare say, for some time to…