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

by Lynn Hamilton

Nineteenth century laws and social institutions entirely failed to protect children born to poor and unstable families in Victorian London and other English cities.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399054546
• ISBN13: 9781399054546
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"