The Honest Poor of Stepney
The year was 1851, and London wore its wealth like a costume—ill-fitting and desperate. At the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, the Great Exhibition gleamed under glass and iron, a cathedral of progress where steam engines stood beside silk from Canton and spices from India. The whole world, it seemed, had come to admire England. And three streets east, in the fog-choked alleys of Stepney, a woman...
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