An apple girl of eighteen
street seller · London, England · 1830년대 초–?
A girl of eighteen who sold apples in the streets of London. Her mother had sold in the streets all her life too. Her name has not come down. The journalist Henry Mayhew met her around 1850 and took down her words.
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c. 1850 · Taken down by the journalist Henry Mayhew. The speaker is a girl of eighteen who sold apples in the street.
“I know where heaven is; it’s above the clouds, and they’re placed there to prevent us seeing into it. That’s where all the good people go, but I’m afeerd,”--she continued solemnly--“there’s very few costers among the angels--’specially those as deceives poor gals.”
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1 · “The Life of a Coster Girl”
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