Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor / Ruth Richardson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Richardson, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Homes and haunts--England--London.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Settings.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
• Workhouses--England--London--History--19th century.
• Poverty--History.
• Poverty.
• History.
• Workhouses.
• London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.
• England--London.

Physical Description:

xix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780199645886
• 0199645884

OCLC:

757147166