Mary L. Shannon

The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his celebrity status took on a life of its own …

The story of a street in Victorian London, home to the offices of Charles Dickens and his biggest rivals…

DICKENS, REYNOLDS, AND MAYHEW ON WELLINGTON STREET (Ashgate) is a cornucopia of a book… It has something of the multitudinousness excitement of a Dickens novel, full of the energy and life of the time… traced with vivid colour and meticulous particularity. (University English Book Prize Panel)

How and why did books get pictures…?