Editing Henry Mayhew (section)

==Influence==
Mayhew's work was embraced by and was an influence on the [[Christian Socialists]], such as [[Thomas Hughes]], [[Charles Kingsley]], and [[F. D. Maurice]]. Radicals also published sizeable excerpts from the reports in the ''[[Northern Star (chartist newspaper)|Northern Star]]'', the ''[[Red Republican]]'', and other newspapers. The often sympathetic investigations, with their immediacy and unswerving eye for detail, offered unprecedented insights into the condition of the Victorian poor. Alongside the earlier work of [[Edwin Chadwick]], they are also speculated as a decisive influence on the thinking of [[Charles Dickens]]<ref>Nelson, Harland S. “Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 20, no. 3, 1965, pp. 207–22. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2932754. Accessed 15 Jan. 2024.</ref>

Mayhew's work inspired the script of director [[Christine Edzard]]'s 1990 film ''[[The Fool (1990 film)|The Fool]]''. Mayhew has appeared as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London; he was played by [[Timothy West]] in the documentary ''[[London (TV series)|London]]'' (2004), and [[David Haig]] in the [[Afternoon Play]] ''A Chaos of Wealth and Want'' (2010). In the 2012 novel ''[[Dodger (novel)|Dodger]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]], Mayhew and his wife appear as fictionalised versions of themselves, and he is mentioned in the dedication.