There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Henry MayhewAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: english
- Born: November 25, 1812
- Died: July 25, 1887
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