The People of the Abyss
In the summer of 1902 an American writer bought secondhand clothes off a Stepney dealer, kept one room he could retreat to, and went to live in the East End among the casuals of Spitalfields and the queue for the Salvation Army breakfast. He counts what a docker earns and what the spike gives a man for a night of stone-breaking, sleeps out on the Embankment, and sets the borough's death rate beside its rents. Written in seven weeks against the pageantry of Edward VII's coronation, it fixed a method that later writers on poverty worked from: go and live it, then publish the arithmetic.
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