Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Henry Mayhew (English Journalist)

Henry Mayhew (1812–87) was a British journalist, social investigator, dramatist, and novelist. He is best known for his masterpiece, London Labour and the London Poor, a staggering account of lower-class life and the struggle for survival.

Born in London, Mayhew ran away from Westminster School and made a voyage to India. He returned to England, studied law with his father, and turned to journalism. He helped to found the periodicals Figaro in London (1831) and The Thief (1832.) Mayhew collaborated with his brother Augustus Septimus Mayhew (1826–75) in writing numerous successful novels such as The Good Genius that Turns Everything to Gold (1847) and Whom to Marry (1848.)

Mayhew is also known for his work as a social researcher. He published an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor (1851,) a groundbreaking and influential social survey of the city’s poor. His evocation of London’s sights and sounds and the contrasting ways of life of its laborers and social outcasts and nomads influenced Charles Dickens and other writers.

Mayhew was a co-founder and first joint editor of the satirical magazine Punch (1841) with Mark Lemon.

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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.
Henry Mayhew

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