London from Southwark 17th century Size:medium 'The Cat and Mouse Act

'The Cat and Mouse Act passed by liberal government' was first published in 1914

some Victorians finally began to confront the problems industrialisation and urbanisation had wrought

and socialise

takes a satirical view of a traditional London May Day procession

Her book reveals the historical

London from Southwark 17th century Size:medium 'The Cat and Mouse ActLondon from Southwark. Oil on wood. This is a view of London taken from Southwark in the mid 1600s before the Great Fire. It shows Southwark in the foreground, with the playhouses on the left hand side and the cathedral in the centre. London Bridge spans the river and then the City of London itself is on the north bank of the Thames, shown as a huddle of crowded, narrow houses and church spires. The writer John Evelyn described London as 'this