Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhewwas an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical and humorous magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor, a groundbreaking and influential survey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 November 1812
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.
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
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling