Buy this book on-line RICHARDSON, RUTH: : DICKENS & THE WORKHOUSE: Oliver Twist & the London PoorUK.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,2012. ISBN 9780199645886.
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The recent discovery that as a youth Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide,and the campaign to save it from demolition caught the public imagination.This book,by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings,tells the story for the first time,showing how profoundly important these years were to his subsequent writing career.
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, shows how the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father's imprisonment in a debtor's prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.
Ruth Richardson shares the story of Charles Dickens's association with the Cleveland Street Workhouse and its neighbourhood,up to the creation of Oliver Twist.She paints an evocative portrait of the social life of the area: the rich and the poor,the landlords and lodgers,the clerks,shopkeepers,and outcasts,the changing times,the politics,and the wider social conditions of the day.And through all this she traces Dickens's interests, his emerging career as a writer,and his preoccupation with the bleak workhouse at the heart of his novel.
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