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9780199681280

Dickens and the Workhouse Oliver Twist and the London Poor

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    9780199681280

  • ISBN10:

    0199681287

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-01-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Ruth Richardson is a historian and the author of a number of books. The Wall Street Journal described her last book, The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy (Oxford University Press) as 'one of those rarities, history that reads like a novel'. That book won the 2009 Medical Journalists' Open Book Award.

Table of Contents


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
9. Works: Contemporaries, Sketches, Spectres, Oliver Twist, Names, Echoes
10. The Most Famous Workhouse in the World: Truth and Fiction
Appendix
Notes
Index

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