Book Description
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547395744
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author : Helen Amy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445609339
The real story of Oliver Twist and Fagin's children.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1466835451
From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Author : Tracy Kasaboski
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1771622032
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 : Berlie Doherty
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0007311257
Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.
Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107098637
The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens's fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.
Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2006-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403482099
How did the Victorian attitude toward poverty affect Charles Dickens? What was London like in the 1800s? What kind of education did Victorian children get? Discover how appalling conditions in Victorian factories inspired a novel that demanded better rights for children.
Author : K. Boehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137362502
This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.
Author : Ruth Richardson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0191624136
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 : Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521775557
This book is a collection on abandoned children illustrating the need to contextualise their position in particular cultural situations.