Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

Ruth Richardson

370 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history mysterious slow-paced
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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 q...

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