Bibliograph

Dickens and the workhouse, Oliver Twist and the London poor, Ruth Richardson

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Dickens and the workhouse, Oliver Twist and the London poor, Ruth Richardson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dickens and the workhouse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

757147166

Responsibility statement

Ruth Richardson

Sub title

Oliver Twist and the London poor

Summary

The story of the recently discovered London workhouse that Charles Dickens lived almost next door to in the years before he wrote 'Oliver Twist, ' told by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these new findings

Table Of Contents

Introduction : Oliver Twist and the workhouse -- Discovery : threat, puzzle, silences -- Vicinity : environs of gentility, environs of poverty -- Institutions : hospital and workhouse -- Home : house, landlord, shop, inside, upstairs, downstairs -- Street : looking down and around -- Calamity : Sheerness, Chatham, Camden Town, Marshalsea, Somers Town -- Young Dickens : return to Norfolk Street, young professional, first essays -- Workhouse : St Paul's Parish, farming the infant poor, Paul Pry, Parliament -- Works : contemporaries, sketches, Spectres, Oliver Twist, Names, Echoes -- The most famous workhouse in the world : truth and fiction

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