A watercress girl, eight years old
watercress seller · London, England · 1840년대 초–?
An eight-year-old girl who sold watercress in the streets of London. Her name has not come down. The journalist Henry Mayhew met her around 1850 and took down her words for London Labour and the London Poor.
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c. 1850 · 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"
c. 1850 · 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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