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In Darkest London

First published: 1900
Pages: 141

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In Darkest London is Ada Elizabeth Chesterton's first-hand account of destitution in 1920s London, published in 1926. To learn how homeless women really lived, the journalist gave away her money and good clothes and went out onto the streets herself, sleeping rough, queuing at shelters, and taking casual work among the poorest of the poor. What she found, told plainly and without sentimentality, was a world of cold, hunger, and official indifference that shocked her comfortable readers. The book helped launch the charity she went on to found for homeless women, and it stands as a powerful piece of social reporting in the tradition that runs back to Mayhew. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete text.

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Ada Elizabeth Chesterton

Ada Elizabeth Chesterton (1869 to 1962) was an English journalist, author, and social reformer, sister-in-law of the writer G. K. Chesterton. Her undercover reporting on homelessness led her to found a network of shelters for women in need.

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