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Fagin's children : criminal children in Victorian England / Jeannie Duckworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duckworth, Jeannie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquency--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Children--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Charles Dickens' ""Oliver Twist"", with Fagin, Sykes, the Artful Dodger and children trained as pickpockets and sent out as burglars' accomplices, provides an unforgettable fictional image of the Victorian underworld. ""Fagin's Children"" is an account of the reality of child crime in 19th-century England and the reaction of the authorities to it. It reveals the poverty and misery of many children's lives in the growing industrial cities of Britain and explores the changing attitudes of the authorities towards the problem. Inevitably most is known about children who were arrested. While few ch
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Illustrations; Preface; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-20208-5
- 9786613202086
- 0-8264-4452-0
- OCLC:
- 741691785
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