East London

by Walter Besant

INDEX

• Abney, Lady, [274]
• Abney, Sir Thomas, [274]
• Aguilar, Grace, [276]
• Aikin, Dr., [275]
• Aliens in London, [187]
• Anarchists, [206]
• Appeals for day in country, [307]
• August holiday, [303]
• Bad building, bribery of inspectors, [220]
• Bancroft almshouses, [341]
• Barbauld, Mrs., [275]
• Barking, [104], [111]
• Barnardo’s homes, [339]
• Barrack Life, [223], [224];
  • and Salvation Army, [224]
• Beating the bounds, [60]
• Beds hired out, [212]
• Bethnal Green crowded district, [221]
• Bicycle round London, [310]
• Billingsgate, [52], [54], [55]
• Bishop’s Manor, [4];
  • Palace, [7]
• Blackwall Basin, [95]
• Booth, General, [225]
• Boundaries of East London, [4]
• Bow Creek, [99]
• Bradwell, [109]
• Breathing places, [302]
• Bridge, first London, [53]
• Casual ward, stupidity of, [249]
• Census, Religious, [37]
• Centenarian, The, [201]
• Chapels on the wall, [110]
• Chapels on bridges and walls, [110]
• Charity Organisation Society, [343]
• Charter House, [280]
• Chaucer, [47], [55]
• Children’s Day in country, [307]
• Chinese in London, [204]
• Church of England, [331]
• City, [257]
• Clapton, [267]
• Club of factory girls, [142];
  • of the baser sort, [315]
• Colet, Dean, [7]
• Continuation Schools, [333]
• Coopers’ Company, [82]
• Cromwell, Major, [273]
• Cromwell, Oliver, [271]
• Crowded part of Bethnal Green, [221]
• Custom House, [55]
• Dagenham, [111];
  • white-bait dinner, [111]
• Dancing, none in East London, [313]
• Day in country for children, [307]
• Defoe, [47], [274]
• Discharged prisoners, [241]
• Disraeli, Benjamin, [275];
  • Isaac, [275]
• Docks, St. Katherine, [62];
  • London, [68];
  • West India, [95];
  • Blackwall, [95];
  • Millwall, [95];
  • attractions for boys, [96]
• Dogs, Isle of, [91]
• Drury Lane, Barracks in, [222]
• Dutch in Spitalfields, [192];
  • Church, [192]
• East End Parks, [304]
• East Ham, [7], [213]
• East London, history mostly a blank, [3];
  • boundaries of, [4];
  • nature of ground, [4];
  • collection of villages, [8];
  • no center, [8];
  • not a city, [8];
  • no newspapers, [8];
  • no people of fashion, [8];
  • filled with working class, [8];
  • population of, [8];
  • no hotels, [9];
  • New Zealander in, [9];
  • no restaurants, [9];
  • rapid rise, [10];
  • a manufacturing city, [10];
  • not a trading city, [10];
  • resembles Old London, [10];
  • no book shops, [13];
  • no literary power, [14];
  • no garrison, [14];
  • no recruiting, [14];
  • monotony, [15];
  • meanness, [15];
  • streets all alike, [15];
  • no old buildings, [16];
  • an unlovely city, [16];
  • fine roads, [17];
  • life not monotonous, [16], [17];
  • city of many crafts, [21];
  • distribution of trades, [22];
  • factories in, [23];
  • proportion of professions to crafts, [24];
  • the curse of labor, [27];
  • division of labor, [28];
  • demand for skilled labor, [29];
  • wages in, [30];
  • sweating, [30];
  • co-operative labor, [33];
  • an experiment, [33];
  • not a slum, [38];
  • a hive of workers, [116];
  • Huxley on, [127];
  • ministering ladies, [128];
  • fringe of, [255];
  • Matthew Arnold on, [358]
• Easter Monday, [290], [291], [295]
• Eighteenth century, [325]
• Emigrés, [189]
• Epping Forest, [256]
• Epping Hunt, [291], [301]
• Excursion trains, [303]
• Excursion Dock, [78];
  • escape of a man, [78]
• Factory girl, [Chapter V.]
• Fairy lights, [239]
• Fight near Tower, [326]
• Fleetwood, Cromwell’s son-in-law, [271]
• Flower Girls’ Society, [342]
• Foreshore, rescue of, [110]
• Fraternities, [337]
• French Revolution, [188]
• French in Spitalfields, [188]
• Fringe of East London, [255]
• Future—the man who looks forward, [56]
• Gambling, Chinese, [205]
• Gardens in London, [304]
• George’s, St., in the East, [72], [73]
• German clerks, [191];
  • Jews, [190], [192]
• Ground, lie of, [4]
• Hackney churchyard, [263];
  • Old Town, [263];
  • 18th-century houses, [264];
  • Barber’s barn, [272];
  • Darnley, [272];
  • Captain Woodcock, [273];
  • Major Cromwell, [273];
  • Hartopp, Sir John, [274];
  • John Howard, [276];
  • André, [277];
  • Princess Elizabeth, [279];
  • Sir Walter Raleigh, [279];
  • Sir Thomas More, [279];
  • Thomas Sutton, [280];
  • John Ward, [281];
  • Lucas, [281]
• Ham, West, [7]
• Hampstead Heath, [292];
  • on Easter Monday, [295]
• Hangman’s Acre, [79]
• Heckford, Dr., [85], [86]
• Helping Hand, the, Chapter XII.;
  • history of, [319];
  • and the beggar, [320];
  • and St. Martin, [321];
  • new developments, [321]
• Henry, Matthew, [275]
• Hewling, Benjamin, [273]
• Holidays, [289]
• Homerton, High Street, [267]
• Hopping, [308]
• Hospitals, [337]
• Housing of the people, [212];
  • and London County Council, [225]
• Huguenots in London, [188], [192]
• Hunting rights, [7]
• Huxley on East London, [127]
• Idlers on London Bridge, [42]
• Immigration, [190]
• Increase of population, [213]
• Industrial villages, [225]
• Irish colony, [36]
• Isle of Dogs, [91];
  • origin of name, [92]
• Italians, [191], [203]
• Jack the Painter, [283]
• Jay, Osborne, the Rev., [329]
• Jewish quarter, [193]
• Jews, alleged superiority, [194];
  • trained intellect, [194];
  • unpopularity of, [195];
  • Sunday morning with, [196];
  • salesmen, [196];
  • physical degeneration, [199];
  • oriental note, [200];
  • the, old man, [201];
  • the Synagogue, [202]
• Journalism and the gaol bird, [242]
• Judenhetze, [195]
• Key of the street, [155]
• Key, price of the, [211]
• Laboratories at People’s Palace, [334]
• Labor aristocracy, [119]
• Ladies in East London, [128]
• Lads in the country, [307]
• Lawlessness in 18th century, [325]
• Lea River, [7]
• Libraries, free, [338]
• Liz, the baby, [119]
• London Street, [119], [120];
  • home, [120];
  • furniture of home, [120];
  • hardening the baby, [122];
  • parents of, [122];
  • food of, [121], [122], [123];
  • beer, [123];
  • the school, [124];
  • washing of, [124];
  • leaves school, [127];
  • forgets her teaching, [127];
  • appearance of, [128];
  • character of, [129];
  • ignorance of, [129], [130];
  • conversation and ideas, [130];
  • interests of place, [130];
  • sailor cousin, [133];
  • Christmas feast, [133];
  • goes to work, [134];
  • in a jam factory, [135];
  • goes a-hopping, [136];
  • a day at factory, [137];
  • breakfast, [137];
  • dinner, [137], [138];
  • on strike, [141];
  • independence of, [143];
  • ladies’ club, [143];
  • bank holiday, [144];
  • at seventeen, [147];
  • on Sunday, [147];
  • her sweetheart, [148];
  • marriage of, [150];
  • a wife and a mother, [151]
• London, the old families, [34];
  • devours her children, [34];
  • vanishing of old families of, [35];
  • influx of new blood, [36];
  • the port of, [41], [42];
  • docks, [68];
  • street, [119], [120];
  • a city of refuge, [187];
  • and the alien, [187],
  • County Council, [225];
  • School Board, [332]
• Long hours of idleness, [289]
• Lord Mayor’s fund, [343]
• Lowe, Bob, [141]
• Lucas, [281]
• Man, two varieties of, [56]
• Manor of Bishop of London, [4]
• Match tax, [141]
• May-day, [290]
• Medland Hall, [248]
• M.A.B.Y.S., [337]
• Memories of the past, Chapter X.
• Millwall Dock, [95]
• More, Sir Thomas, [7], [279], [280]
• Morley, Samuel, [276]
• Music halls, [322]
• Nantes, Edict of, [188]
• New docker, the, [52]
• Okey, John, [271]
• Opium den, [205]
• Organized robbery, [48]
• Osborne, Jay, the Rev., [329];
  • work of, [330];
  • the boxing class, [330];
  • the doss-house, [331]
• Overcrowding, [213], [214];
  • a million affected, [218];
  • case of A. B., [218];
  • vitiation of air, [217]
• Palace of bishop, [7]
• Palatines, the, [188], [278]
• Parish work, [327];
  • unpaid assistants, [328]
• Past, the man who loves the, [54]
• People, housing of, [221]
• People’s Palace, [297], [312], [313], [334]
• Pepys, [91]
• Persian scholar in East London, [204]
• Peter, St., ad Vincula, [60]
• Polish Jews, [192]
• Polytechnics, [333]
• Poor, generosity of, [121]
• Popular recreation ground, [304]
• Population of East London, [8];
  • proportion of those born, [36];
  • rapid increase, [213]
• Port of Billingsgate, ancient, [52]
• Port of London, A.D. 1400, [46];
  • increase of trade, [48];
  • Riverside people, [48];
  • A.D. 1700, [48];
  • lightermen formerly organized plunderers, [51]
• Prisoners, wreck of manhood, [351];
  • welcomed
  • in the Salvation Army, [247], [353]
• Prisons, [352], [353], [357]
• Raines Charity, [68], [71]
• Ratcliffe, [81];
  • highway, [71];
  • stairs, [81], [85];
  • cross, [82];
  • shipwrights’ company, [82];
  • the Italian ghost, [87]
• Refuge, the city of, [187]
• Religion, indifference, not hatred, [37]
• Rent, increase of, [211]
• Rescue of Foreshore, [110]
• Revolution, French, [181]
• River Lea, [309]
• Riverside, [48]
• Riverwall, [103], [104], [105], [107], [109], [112]
• Rowe, Owen, [271]
• St. Austin’s Church, [192]
• St. Katharine’s by the Tower, [65];
  • dock, [62];
  • liberty of, [65];
  • destruction of, [66];
  • Regent’s Park, [66]
• Salvation Army barracks, [224];
  • shelters of the, [248];
  • the farm, [353];
  • social work, [350];
  • lodging houses, [350];
  • work shops, [350];
  • prisoners, [247], [353];
  • does it pay? [354];
  • the modern friars, [357];
  • a company of self-denying workers, [357]
• Sandwich man, the, [240]
• Scholarships, [334];
  • possibilities of, [335]
• School children, [332];
  • humanizing influence of, [332]
• Settlement, the, and lads, [307];
  • origin of, [344];
  • working of, [345];
  • what it is, [346], [348]
• Shacklewell Green, [280];
  • and Sir Thomas More, [280];
  • Shadwell, [79]
• Shakspere, [47]
• Shopkeepers, no amusement for the smaller sort, [311]
• Shipwrights’ Company, [82]
• Sick, care of, [337]
• Slums, [323];
  • exaggeration of novelists, [324]
• Smith, Dr. William, [274]
• South London, barracks in, [222]
• Spitalfields and French, [188]
• Sports and Pastimes, Chapter XI.;
  • in the street, [310]
• Stepney, [7]
• Stoke Newington, Dr. Aikin, [275];
  • Mrs. Barbauld, [275];
  • Church Street, [269];
  • Thomas Day, [276];
  • Defoe, [274];
  • Isaac Disraeli, [275];
  • Fleetwood House, [273];
  • nonconformity in, [270];
  • Puritan leaders in, [271];
  • John Okey, [271];
  • Palatines, [278];
  • E. Allan Poe, [277];
  • Owen Rowe, [271]
• Stow, [59], [67]
• Stratford Langthorne, [111]
• Strype, [67]
• Submerged, of all classes, [229];
  • where found, [230];
  • of the eighteenth century, [232];
  • inoffensive, [233];
  • causes of wreck, [233];
  • in police court, [234];
  • the case of A. A., [237];
  • in the Sixpenny Hotel, [238];
  • in Oxford Street, [239];
  • of various trades, [240];
  • the odd job, [241];
  • pennyworths, [241];
  • the sandwich man, [244];
  • ten thousand of them, [251];
  • a lower depth still, [250]
• Suburban life changing, [261];
  • destruction of city social life, [257];
  • dullness of, [258];
  • clubs and amusements, [261];
  • awakening of society, [261];
  • theatres in, [261]
• Suburbs, growth of, [67]
• Sunday lectures, [339]
• Sutton, Thomas, [280]
• Swedish Church, [73]
• Technical Education Board, [333]
• The lad of the street, [156];
  • at school, [159];
  • leaves school, [160];
  • prospects, [160];
  • what he knows, [161];
  • his temptations, [162];
  • the barges left in the mud, [165];
  • his pair of hands, [165];
  • city boys, [166];
  • railway for, [166];
  • factories for, [167];
  • van and horse, [167];
  • beer boy, [167];
  • meals, [168];
  • porter’s work, [168];
  • degeneration of, [171];
  • long evenings, [171];
  • boys’ clubs, [172];
  • classes, [172];
  • music halls, [173], [181];
  • mimicry of, [174];
  • casual hand, [177];
  • street amusements, [177];
  • at Epsom, [177];
  • Hooligans, [177];
  • street fights, [177];
  • the Reformatory, [178];
  • gamblers, [178];
  • reading, [181];
  • keeps company, [181];
  • ordeal of street, [182];
  • loafers, [183]
• Theatre regarded with horror, [258]
• Thousands driven out homeless, [222]
• Tower Hill, [55], [56];
  • terrace on, [55], [56], [59], [61];
  • of London, [59];
  • bridge, [61], [62];
  • liberties, [66]
• Toynbee Hall, lectures at, [311]
• Tramps and rogues, [250]
• Trinity almshouses, [341]
• Turpin, Dick, [282]
• Wall by river, [103]
• Wapping, school and churchyard, [73], [74];
  • old stairs, [77];
  • recreation ground, [304]
• Ward, John, [281]
• Wat Tyler, [7]
• Watts, Dr. Isaac, [268], [273]
• West Ham, [7], [214]
• West India Dock Road, [203]
• West India Docks, [95]
• Whit Monday, [298]
• Whitechapel picture exhibition, [296]
• Whittington, [47]
• Willoughby, Sir Hugh, [85]
• Winter amusements, [310]
• Woodcock, Captain, [272]
• Workhouse, the, [349]
• Working class, better sort, [119]
• Yarmouth Church, why closed, [303]

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• Transcriber’s Notes:
  • Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
  • Typographical errors were silently corrected.
  • Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.