Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives -- 1.1. George R. Sims - Eminent Victorian? -- 1.2. Key Concepts in Victorian Culture -- New Media and Poverty -- Work and Poverty -- London and Poverty -- Radical Politics and the Working Class -- Death and Poverty -- 1.3. The New Poor Law, Poor Relief and Private Charity -- The Deterrent Workhouse -- Chapter 2. Modes of Depicting Poverty -- 2.1. From the Picturesque to the Authentic -- 2.2. Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor and Authenticity -- 2.3. Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold - London. A Pilgrimage and the Picturesque -- 2.4. John Thomson and Adolphe Smith -Street Life in London and Photography -- Chapter 3. The Popular Poverty Works of George R. Sims and Their Adaptations -- 3.1. George R. Sims - Creating a Media Personality -- 3.2. "The last word on realism" - The Lights o' London (1881) -- 3.3. The Bigger Picture - The Historical Art of Projection and the Magic Lantern -- Life Model Slides, Photography and Melodrama -- Copyright Legislation and Life Model Slides -- 3.4. To the Silver Screen - Film Adaptations -- Chapter 4. Newspapers As Sources - Towards A Digital Source Criticism -- 4.1. The Historical Art of Projection and Digitized Sources -- 4.2. Victorian Newspapers and Digitization -- Chapter 5. Case Studies -- 5.1 Into Poor Homes - How the Poor Live (1883) -- Publication History -- Scholarly Responses -- Authenticating Strategies -- Modes of Reception -- Lantern Slide Series -- 5.2. Angry Old Man - In the Workhouse. Christmas Day (1877) -- The Workhouse in Works of George R. Sims -- The Workhouse in Journalism and Literature -- Lantern Slide Series IN THE WORKHOUSE (Bamforth, 1890) -- CHRISTMASDAY IN THE WORKHOUSE (George Berthold Samuelson, 1914) -- Adaptation and Recitation.

Recitation, Elocution and Authenticity -- 5.3. Death as Salvation - The Road to Heaven (1882) -- The Road to Heaven, The Dagonet Ballads and Authenticity -- Alternative Reading by Robert Craven -- Adaptations by Bamforth: Poor Children Between the Picturesque and the Authentic -- Adaptation by York & -- Son -- Reception Contexts and Other Adaptations -- Perspectives -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Dates of First Publication for Selected Works by George R. Sims -- Appendix B: Magic Lantern Adaptations of Works by George R. Sims -- Appendix C: Film Adaptations of Works by George R. Sims -- Appendix D: Transcript of Letter Sent to George R. Sims by Frederick Barnard -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Government Publications -- Contemporaneous Articles on Sims -- Reports on Bamforth -- Catalogues -- Secondary Sources -- Websites -- Collections in Archives, Libraries -- Audio-Visual Material -- Newspapers.