Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London by Lynn Hamilton

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

Lynn Hamilton

232 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history
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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 expl...

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