Kniha: Dickens and the Workhouse v anglickom jazyku

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.The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist`s workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens`s old home were still standing, near London`s Telecom Tower. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father`s imprisonment in a debtors` prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.

Introduction
1: Discovery: threat, silences, discovery, Dickens' first London home
2: Vicinity: environs of gentility, Norfolk-street, medical charity, environs of poverty
3: Home: house, landlord, inside, views: upstairs/downstairs
4: Street: looking down, and around
5: Calamity: gap years, catastrophe, blacking factory, Marshalsea, Somers Town, schooling
6: Young Dickens: Return to Norfolk Street: clerk, young professional, Parliament, first essays
7: Workhouse: government/management
8: Works: family moves, Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, Marylebone borders, human heaps
9: Poor Law: visitor, doctor, master, commission, change
10: The Most Famous Workhouse in the World
Notes
Index

408 pages | 25 black and white halftones | 216x135mm