Social history
- “Behold the effects of its infamous Poor-Laws;—contemplate the results of the more atrocious Game-Laws;—mark the consequences of the Corn-Laws.”
- Reynolds’ London — unbounded wealth and appalling misery
- “The picture is, alas! too true” — Reynolds on the lives of young girls in London slums
- London slums: West Street (Smithfield), Field Lane, and Saffron Hill, London
- Reynolds on Globe Town, another London slum
- That “splendid Chapel of Ease . . . not a hundred miles from Russell or Tavistock Square” — class discrimination even in church
- Reynolds and sensational suicides
- “Great is thy power, O Gin” — Reynolds’s sermon on the harm it does to the poor
Crime and criminal activities
- Aristocratic Morals
- Professional Beggars in London
- Food falsely measured, adulterated, and contaminated
- Working as a shill in an auction house
- Prostituting girls ten and twelve years old
- Reynolds’s Opposition to Capital Punishment
- Reynolds’s Opposition to Imprisonment for Debt
- “Obscene jokes and filthy expressions. . . [at] the very foot of the gallows” — Reynolds on the corrupting effect of public executions
Last modified 25 October 2016