Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor
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Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor
Oxford University Press, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination.
Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were still standing, near London's Telecom Tower.
This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father's imprisonment in a debtors' prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Oliver Twist and the Workhouse
- 1. Discovery: Threat, Puzzle, Silences
- 2. Vicinity: Environs of Gentility, Environs of Poverty
- 3. Institutions: Hospital and Workhouse
- 4. Home: House, Landlord, Shop, Inside, Upstairs, Downstairs
- 5. Street: Looking Down and Around
- 6. Calamity: Sheerness, Chatham, Camden Town, Marshalsea, Somers Town
- 7. Young Dickens: Return to Norfolk Street, Young Professional, First Essays
- 8. Workhouse: St Paul's Parish, Farming the Infant Poor, Paul Pry, Parliament
- 9. Works: Contemporaries, Sketches, Spectres, Oliver Twist, Names, Echoes
- 10. The Most Famous Workhouse in the World: Truth and Fiction
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
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