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A Biographical Sketch of East London

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Beyond the Tower: A History of East London, by John Marriott, London: Yale University Press, 2011, xii + 421 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9780300148800 Reviewed by Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores University) L.M.Matthew-Jones@ljmu.ac.uk In Beyond the Tower: A History of East London, John Marriott joins historians such as Gareth Stedman Jones, Judith Walkowitz and Seth Koven in offering readers a journey through the eastern districts of London.  Our fascination with the East End continues apace, it seems. Nineteenth-century social commentators,

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