Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Dickens And The Workhouse Oliver Twist And The London Poor
Author(s): Richardson Ruth (Fellow Of The Royal Historical Society; Affiliated Scholar In The History & Philosophy Of Science University Of Cambridge; Hon. Professor Of Humanities And Medicine Hong Kong University.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199645886
Pages: 392 Pages, 25 Black And White Halftones
Publication Date: 3/24/2012
Category: Social & Cultural History