Publisher's Synopsis
Mary Bayly was a Victorian writer, philanthropist, social reformer and founder of a Mothers Society offering advice to poor women on raising their children. In this book she highlights the plight of those living in the area of Notting Hill, West London (now one of London's most fashionable and expensive neighbourhoods) which in the middle of the 19th century was a notorious slum known as the 'Potteries and the Piggeries, ' the home of brick makers and pig keepers. First published in 1859.
