Charlie B.
East End Alice, A Victorian Girls Escape From Sin
The East End of London, Victorian London 1884. The crowded tenements, the poor standard of living, the disease, the crime and the vice are all inhabitants of this darkest of places, yet people here are not insular nor vying to be better than their neighbour’s. This is an environment where everyone looks out for one another, where despite poverty, friendship is the watchword and this is the world in which twelve-year-old Alice Kettle sweeps her street crossing, keeping it clean for people to cross the road without the detritus of Victorian traffic fouling their person. A job she does to earn pennies to help support her mother’s family through these hard times.…
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