Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor / Ruth Richardson.
2012
PR4584 .R53x 2012eb
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Title
Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor / Ruth Richardson.
Author
ISBN
9780191624124 (electronic bk.)
0191624128 (electronic bk.)
1280594594
9781280594595
9780199645886
0199645884
0191624128 (electronic bk.)
1280594594
9781280594595
9780199645886
0199645884
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
Call Number
PR4584 .R53x 2012eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)780444587
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, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Richardson, Ruth. Dickens and the workhouse. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
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