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Zusatztext Pulls off that rare combination of a perfectly and thoroughly executed piece of academic research whilst remaining not only immensely readable but positively compelling ... this book is wonderful. Informationen zum Autor Ruth Richardson is a historian and the author of a number of books. The Wall Street Journal described her last book, The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy (Oxford University Press) as 'one of those rarities, history that reads like a novel'. That book won the 2009 Medical Journalists' Open Book Award. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Oliver Twist and the Workhouse; 1 Discovery: Threat, Puzzle, Silences; 2 Vicinity: Environs of Gentility, Environs of Poverty; 3 Institutions: Hospital and Workhouse; 4 Home: House, Landlord, Shop, Inside, Upstairs, Downstairs; 5 Street: Looking Down and Around; 6 Calamity: Sheerness, Chatham, Camden Town, Marshalsea, Somers Town; 7 Young Dickens: Return to Norfolk Street, Young Professional, First Essays; 8 Workhouse: St Paul's Parish, Farming the Infant Poor, Paul Pry, Parliament; 9 Works: Contemporaries, Sketches, Spectres, Oliver Twist, Names, Echoes; 10 The Most Famous Workhouse in the World: Truth and Fiction; Appendix; Notes; Index
