[EVANS (David Morier).]
The City; or, The Physiology of London Business; With Sketches on 'Change, and at the Coffee Houses.
[EVANS (David Morier).]
The City; or, The Physiology of London Business; With Sketches on 'Change, and at the Coffee Houses.
‘David Morier Evans was one of the most prolific authors writing on the markets in the nineteenth century. He was assistant city correspondent for the Times, later becoming an editorial director for the financial pages of the Morning Herald and Standard. This work - partly historical, partly sociological - paints a wide and vivid canvas of the City, its exchanges, coffee houses (Garraway’s, Jerusalem), its characters (Mr. and Mrs. Rothschild, Mr. Thornton, a speculator in tallow), and its varied castes (including the “little-go” or “alley men” who dealt in old scrip, redundant allotment letters of mining, and railway companies’ (Dennistoun).
Dennistoun, Bubbles, Booms and Busts, 59.
