ABSTRACT
55Life in one of the 19th-century London suburbs has been described beautifully in George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody (1892). The suburbs had started to grow from the 1860s, when organized systems of public transport could take the suburban dwellers to their urban places of work, and these new developments accounted for the largest growth in population throughout the whole country between 1881 and 1891.
