Dickens and the workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London poor

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Oliver Twist and the Workhouse

1. Discovery: Threat, Puzzle, Silences

2. Vicinity: Environs of Gentility, Environs of Poverty

3. Institutions: Hospital and Workhouse

4. Home: House, Landlord, Shop, Inside, Upstairs, Downstairs

5. Street: Looking Down and Around

6. Calamity: Sheerness, Chatham, Camden Town, Marshalsea, Somers Town

7. Young Dickens: Return to Norfolk Street, Young Professional, First Essays

8. Workhouse: St Paul's Parish, Farming the Infant Poor, Paul Pry, Parliament

9. Works: Contemporaries, Sketches, Spectres, Oliver Twist, Names, Echoes

10. The Most Famous Workhouse in the World: Truth and Fiction

Appendix

Table 1. Chronology of Dickens's Major Works

Table 2. Chronology of Pickwick, Twist, and Nickleby

Table 3. Dickens's Siblings

Table 4. Where Dickens Lived before 'Boz'

Table 5. Dickens's Occupations in Relation to his Addresses

Notes

Index