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Author | : Ruth Richardson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191624136 |
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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.
Author | : Ruth Richardson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199645884 |
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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 exciting new findings.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrea Warren |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547395744 |
Download Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781761531460 |
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Author | : John Waller |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1840464704 |
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From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2020-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782491251819 |
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988.
Author | : Jonathan Reinarz |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580464483 |
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This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Mudfog and Other Sketches Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Mudfog and Other Sketches" by Charles Dickens are an anthology of stories. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of a fictional society, The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The fictional town of Mudfog was based on Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent part of his youth. Dickens' famous character, Oliver Twist, has even appeared in some of these tales.
Author | : Alan Gallop |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752486977 |
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What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.