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Dickens and the Workhouse

Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191624136
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Workhouse written by Ruth Richardson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dickens and the Workhouse

Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199645884
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Workhouse written by Ruth Richardson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dickens' London

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dickens' London written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Christmas Carol

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761531460
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Oliver Twist

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1840464704
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Real Oliver Twist written by John Waller and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782491251819
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547395744
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Medicine and the Workhouse

Author : Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464483
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Workhouse written by Jonathan Reinarz and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mudfog and Other Sketches

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Mudfog and Other Sketches written by Charles Dickens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Cowkeeper's Wish

Author : Tracy Kasaboski
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771622032
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Cowkeeper's Wish written by Tracy Kasaboski and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712400
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Death, Dissection and the Destitute written by Ruth Richardson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.

Teacher, Teacher!

Author : Jack Sheffield
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409082369
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Teacher, Teacher! written by Jack Sheffield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. And then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster... Warm, funny and nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.

Joseph Rogers, M. D.

Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Rogers, M. D. written by Joseph Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oliver Twist Illustrated

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"

The Workhouse Ward

Author : Lady Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Workhouse Ward written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse

Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750966319
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse written by Michelle Higgs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.