SOURCE: “Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor,” in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 20, No. 3, December, 1965, pp. 207-22.
In the following essay, Nelson studies possible sources for the characters Betty Higden and Gaffer Hexam in Our Mutual Friend from among the poor Londoners interviewed by Henry Mayhew for his nonfiction work.
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