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Dickens and the Workhouse
Oliver Twist and the London Poor
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London (england), description and travel
London (england), social conditions
Dickens, charles, 1812-1870
Poverty
Homes and haunts
Social conditions
History
It's one of the best known scenes in all of literature--young Oliver Twist, with empty bowl in hand, asking "Please Sir. I want some more." In Dickens and the Workhouse, historian Ruth Richardson recounts how she discovered the building that was quite possibly the model for the workhouse in Dickens'…
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