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Henry Mayhew was born on November 25, 1812, in London, England, one of seventeen children of Joshua Mayhew.
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Henry Mayhew was born on November 25, 1812, in London, England, one of seventeen children of Joshua Mayhew.
Mayhew was educated at Westminster School before running away from his studies to sea.
He ran away to sea at age 12 and made a voyage to India. Upon his return he studied law with his father but soon turned to journalism. He helped to found the periodicals Figaro in London (1831) and The Thief (1832) before organizing the highly successful Punch, of which he was coeditor (with Mark Lemon) for two years. He also wrote plays, farces, fairy tales, and novels, some in collaboration with his brother.
Mayhew had a genius for lively and sensitive reportage of people, including social outcasts and nomads, and of contrasting ways of life; and he was able to combine his observation with penetrating economic and social analysis, some of it with a Marxist flavour. London Labour and the London Poor was based on letters he wrote to the London Morning Chronicle in 1849–1850, at the end of a stormy decade in British social history. Responding to the newspaper’s desire for "trustworthy information" on the great social problems of the day, Mayhew prepared three volumes that were published in 1851; the fourth volume, The Criminal Prisons of London, was written in collaboration with John Binny and did not appear until 1862. A revised complete edition was published in 1864.
Short of money in his later years, Henry Mayhew produced much hackwork and died on July 25, 1887, in obscurity.
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Quotations:
"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. "
"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. "
"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. "
