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.
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Hard Streets
Chipping Campden Literature Festival, HistoryAuthor Jacqueline Riding Published by Profile Books ISBN 9781800818644 EAN 9781800818644 Bic Code NHTB|DNBF|ATD Cover Hardback
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