Dickens And The Workhouse

Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191624131

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Dickens and the Workhouse by Ruth Richardson Pdf

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 periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father's imprisonment in a debtors' prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.

Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199645886

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Dickens and the Workhouse by Ruth Richardson Pdf

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 exciting new findings.

Author : Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464482

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Medicine and the Workhouse by Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz Pdf

This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781840464702

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The Real Oliver Twist by John Waller Pdf

From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : London (England)
ISBN : IND:32000010023622

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Dickens' London by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771622035

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The Cowkeeper's Wish by Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog Pdf

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1761531468

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547395746

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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren Pdf

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2491251817

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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Pdf

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988.

Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750966313

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Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse by Michelle Higgs Pdf

Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. Charles Dickens famously portrayed workhouse inmates as being dirty, neglected, overworked adn at the mercy of exploitative masters. While there were undoubtedly establishments that conformed to this stereotype, there is also evidence of a more enlightened approach that has not yet come to public attention. This book establishes a true picture of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine. A comprehensive overview of the workshouse system gives a real and compelling insight into social and moral reasons behind their growth in the Victorian era, while the kind of distinctions that were drawn between inmates are looked into, which, along with the social stigma of having been a workhouse inmate, tell us much about class attitudes of the time. The book also looks at living conditions and duties of the staff who, in many ways, were prisoners of the workhouse. Michelle Higgs combines thorough research with a fresh outlook on a crucial period in British history, and in doing so paints a vivid portrait of an era and its social standards that continues to fascinate, and tells us much about the society we live in today.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664645890

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Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens Pdf

"Mudfog and Other Sketches" by Charles Dickens are an anthology of stories. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of a fictional society, The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The fictional town of Mudfog was based on Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent part of his youth. Dickens' famous character, Oliver Twist, has even appeared in some of these tales.

Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752486970

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Life in a Victorian Workhouse by Alan Gallop Pdf

What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.

Author : Sirinya Pakditawan
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638775724

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Childhood in Victorian England and Charles Dickens' Novel "Oliver Twist" by Sirinya Pakditawan Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In "Oliver Twist", Dickens presents the everyday existence of the lowest members of English society and realistically portrays the horrible conditions of the nineteenth century workhouses. Hence, in the story of Oliver Twist, Dickens uses past experiences from his childhood and targets the Poor Law of 1834 which renewed the importance of the workhouse as a means of relief for the poor. In fact, Dickens' age was a period of industrial development marked by the rise of the middle class. In the elections brought about by the accession of William IV in 1830, the Tories lost control of the government. Assumption of power by the Whigs opened the way to an era of accelerated progress. In this time period, children worked just as much, if not more, than some of the adults. After 1833, an increased amount of legislation was enacted to control the hours of labour and working conditions for children and women in manufacturing plants. The Poor Law of 1834 wanted to make the workhouse more of a deterrent to idleness as it was believed that people were poor because they were lazy and needed to be punished. So people in workhouses were deliberately treated harshly and the workhouses were similar to prisons. In the following, it will be analyzed how Dickens attacks the defects of existing institutions in his novel "Oliver Twist". Hence, it will be shown how Dickens creates a fictive world that was a mirror in which the truths of the real world were reflected. However, firstly, it is necessary to take a closer look at the historical background. Thus, the attitude of Victorian society towards the poor comes into view and with it the central issues of child labour, Poor Laws and workhouse conditions. Secondly, when regarding the central theme of

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798651170920

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Oliver Twist Illustrated by Charles Dickens Pdf

"Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39.[1] The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets ""The Artful Dodger"", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.[2] The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.[3]In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well.Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988"

Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Charities, Medical
ISBN : NWU:35558005350281

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Joseph Rogers, M. D. by Joseph Rogers Pdf