The Skirts of the Great City
The Skirts of the Great City

Author: N. D'Anvers

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13:

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This work presents a concise history of the outlying suburbs of London. It's a wonderfully illustrated account of the skirts of the great city. The author of this historical work Nancy Regina Emily Meugens Bell (1844 – 1933), was a talented British translator and author of partial Belgian descent who wrote under the pseudonym N. D'Anvers until her marriage Contents include: Hampstead and Its Associations Highgate, Hornsey, Hendon, and Harrow Some Interesting Villages North of London, With Waltham Abbey and Epping Forest Hainault Forest, Woolwich, and Other Eastern Suburbs of London Greenwich and Other South-eastern Suburbs of London Outlying London in North-east Surrey Croydon, Carshalton, Epsom, and Other Suburbs in North-west Surrey Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, and Other Southern Suburbs Wimbledon, Merton, Mitcham, and Their Memories Riverside Survey From Mortlake to Richmond Richmond Town and Park, With Petersham, Ham House, and Kingston Riverside Middlesex From Fulham to Hampton Court

Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations
Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations

Author: William F. Howe

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1528791916

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“Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations” is an 1886 work by American lawyer William Frederick Howe. Howe worked for the Howe and Hummel New York City law firm, which became widely celebrated during the second half of nineteenth century for its cases related to world of crime and corruption. This volume goes into detail describing some of the firm's more notable cases and paints a vivid picture of New York City's criminal underbelly at the turn of the nineteenth century. Contents include: “Ancient and Modern Prisons”, “Criminals and their Haunts”, “Street Arabs of Both Sexes”, “Store Girls”, “The Pretty Waiter Girl”, “Shop-Lifters”, “Kleptomania”, “Panel Houses and Panel Thieves”, “A Theatrical Romance”, “A Mariner's Wooing”, “The Baron and 'Baroness'”, “The Demi-Monde”, “Passion's Slaves and Victims”, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with the introductory chapter 'The Pleasant Fiction of the Presumption of Innocence' by Arthur Train.