| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; 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 |
| Summary |
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 period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Settings
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast |
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Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 gnd |
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Workhouses -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
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Poverty -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Homes
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Poverty
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Setting (Literature)
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Social conditions
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Workhouses
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Armenhaus Motiv
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Soziale Situation Motiv
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London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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England -- London
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London (Motiv)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191624124 |
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0191624128 |
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1280594594 |
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9781280594595 |
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