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Dickens And The Workhouse
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Author : Ruth Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Dickens And The Workhouse written by Ruth Richardson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
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.
Life In The Victorian And Edwardian Workhouse
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Author : Michelle Higgs
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2007-03-01
Life In The Victorian And Edwardian Workhouse written by Michelle Higgs and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-01 with History categories.
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.
Childhood In Victorian England And Charles Dickens Novel Oliver Twist
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Author : Sirinya Pakditawan
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11
Childhood In Victorian England And Charles Dickens Novel Oliver Twist written by Sirinya Pakditawan and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In "Oliver Twist", Dickens presents the everyday existence of the lowest members of English society and realistically portrays the horrible conditions of the nineteenth century workhouses. Hence, in the story of Oliver Twist, Dickens uses past experiences from his childhood and targets the Poor Law of 1834 which renewed the importance of the workhouse as a means of relief for the poor. In fact, Dickens' age was a period of industrial development marked by the rise of the middle class. In the elections brought about by the accession of William IV in 1830, the Tories lost control of the government. Assumption of power by the Whigs opened the way to an era of accelerated progress. In this time period, children worked just as much, if not more, than some of the adults. After 1833, an increased amount of legislation was enacted to control the hours of labour and working conditions for children and women in manufacturing plants. The Poor Law of 1834 wanted to make the workhouse more of a deterrent to idleness as it was believed that people were poor because they were lazy and needed to be punished. So people in workhouses were deliberately treated harshly and the workhouses were similar to prisons. In the following, it will be analyzed how Dickens attacks the defects of existing institutions in his novel "Oliver Twist". Hence, it will be shown how Dickens creates a fictive world that was a mirror in which the truths of the real world were reflected. However, firstly, it is necessary to take a closer look at the historical background. Thus, the attitude of Victorian society towards the poor comes into view and with it the central issues of child labour, Poor Laws and workhouse conditions. Secondly, when regarding the central theme of
Childhood Without Rights Or Protection Children In Victorian England And The Novel Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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Author : Sirinya Pakditawan
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-03-02
Childhood Without Rights Or Protection Children In Victorian England And The Novel Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens written by Sirinya Pakditawan and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.5, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Untersuchung der Recht von Kindern im viktorianischen England allgemein und in Bezug auf Dickens' Roman "Oliver Twist"
Medicine And The Workhouse
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Author : Jonathan Reinarz
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2013
Medicine And The Workhouse written by Jonathan Reinarz and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
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.
A Christmas Carol
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-27
A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with categories.
Pauper Voices Public Opinion And Workhouse Reform In Mid Victorian England
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Author : Peter Jones
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-08
Pauper Voices Public Opinion And Workhouse Reform In Mid Victorian England written by Peter Jones and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-08 with History categories.
This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.
Charles Dickens And The Street Children Of London
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Author : Andrea Warren
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011
Charles Dickens And The Street Children Of London written by Andrea Warren and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Treatment Of Children In Dickens Novels
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Author : Pankaj Kumar
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Treatment Of Children In Dickens Novels written by Pankaj Kumar and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University , course: Mphil, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the treatment of children in the following novels of Dickens "Oliver Twist" (1839) and "David Copperfield" (1850). In my analysis of Dickens’ novels, I am going to deal with how poor children became a source of cheap labour and how they were forced to work in hard and tough conditions.
Oliver Twist
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with categories.
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and 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. The alternate 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 satirizes 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 movie called Oliver & Company in 1988.PLOT:Oliver Twist was born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town (although when originally published in Bentley's Miscellany in 1837, the town was called Mudfog and said to be within 70 miles north of London - in reality, this is the location of the town of Northampton). Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's mysterious absence, Oliver is meagerly provided for under the terms of the Poor Law and spends the first nine years of his life living at a baby farm in the 'care' of a woman named Mrs. Mann. Oliver is brought up with little food and few comforts. Around the time of Oliver's ninth birthday, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, removes Oliver from the baby farm and puts him to work picking and weaving oakum at the main workhouse. Oliver, who toils with very little food, remains in the workhouse for six months. One day, the desperately hungry boys decide to draw lots; the loser must ask for another portion of gruel. The task falls to Oliver, who at the next meal tremblingly comes up forward, bowl in hand, and begs Mr. Bumble for gruel with his famous request: "Please, sir, I want some more".A great uproar ensues. The board of well-fed gentlemen who administer the workhouse hypocritically offer �5 to any person wishing to take on the boy as an apprentice. Mr. Gamfield, a brutal chimney sweep, almost claims Oliver. However, when he begs despairingly not to be sent away with "that dreadful man", a kindly old magistrate refuses to sign the indentures. Later, Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker employed by the parish, takes Oliver into his service. He treats Oliver better and, because of the boy's sorrowful countenance, uses him as a mourner at children's funerals. However, Mr. Sowerberry is in an unhappy marriage, and his wife looks down to Oliver - primarily because her husband seems to like him better - and loses few opportunities to underfeed and mistreat him. He also suffers torment at the hands of Noah Claypole, an oafish but bullying fellow apprentice and "charity boy" who is jealous of Oliver's promotion to mute, and Charlotte, the Sowerberrys' maidservant, who is in love with Noah...Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.