Who Were the Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London

by Lynn Hamilton

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factories, and child criminal gangs posed lethal and daily hazards to children born to poverty. Several much-needed reforms took place in the aftermath of Oliver Twist's publication. But what were the circumstances of childhood poverty in Victorian London and other English cities? And who were the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399054546
• ISBN13: 9781399054546
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 208 Pages