Henry Lawson
1888 · Australia · Written at twenty-one and first printed in a magazine in July 1888.
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown; For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet My window-sill is level with the faces in the street
“Faces in the Street”, in In the Days When the World Was Wide (1896)
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A watercress girl, eight years old
c. 1850 · London, England · Her words as the journalist Henry Mayhew took them down. She bought cresses at the market before dawn and sold them in the streets
I knows a good many games, but I don’t play at ’em, ’cos going out with creases tires me.
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1, "Watercress Girl"
A watercress girl, eight years old
c. 1850 · London, England · Said after explaining that she puts her earnings in a club to buy clothes, and that sweets are for children, not for someone with a living to earn
I aint a child, and I shan’t be a woman till I’m twenty, but I’m past eight, I am.
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1, "Watercress Girl"
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