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‘These streets are the marketplace for garrulous gamine Eliza, who ekes out a living selling flowers to wealthy slummers.’
‘It is in some sense surprising that a story with the potential to discipline literary slummers should find its way into a magazine that catered to them.’
‘He paints a vivid picture of Victorian and Edwardian slummers and the social and sexual politics that impelled their urban journeys.’
‘And the scene escalates, people are rising from their chairs, the duly deputized representatives of barroom order show up… and the slummers get bounced right back out into the night.’
‘I know people will call me a slummer for saying that, but I know that the underclass in American cities are like urban hunters and gatherers.’
‘But by evening it transformed into a seductive siren, luring sailors and slummers into a dangerous milieu of opium dens, crimping joints, saloons, brothels and gambling houses.’
‘This magazine isn't for the New Yorker, it's for the slummer.’
‘The ring-leader of the slummers, a duo of Austrians, is Sebastian.’
‘The wealthy aren't invited, since nobody wants it thrown out of whack by a bunch of elegant slummers.’
‘But when I went there in August I was disoriented by how tame the place felt as the slummers finally overwhelmed the neighborhood.’
‘The novel describes vividly how reformers, do-gooders and slummers all beat a path to Southwark.’