| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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England -- London. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Settings.
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Dickens, Charles. |
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Workhouses -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Workhouses. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Poverty -- History.
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Poverty. |
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London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-1900. |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Richardson, Ruth. Dickens and the workhouse. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199645886 (OCoLC)757147166 |
| ISBN |
9780191624124 (electronic book) |
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0191624128 (electronic book) |
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1280594594 |
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9781280594595 |
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9780199645886 |
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0199645884 |
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