EBOOK Dickens and the Workhouse:Oliver Twist and the London Poor

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 - wereprofoundly important to his        subsequent writing career.