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Charles Dickens and the street children of London

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Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any age.

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English
Pages
156

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Cover of: Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
2050, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Jun 13, 2017, HMH Books for Young Readers
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Cover of: Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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Charles Dickens and the street children of London
2011, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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Table of Contents

The man in the shadows
The poor people of London
The early years
A working-class boy
Growing up
Becoming a writer
The workhouse
Oliver Twist
The sea captain who rescued foundling children
The great benefactors : Handel, Hogarth, and Dickens
Closing England's worst schools
Sending ragged children to school
Giving from a charitable heart
A dedicated reformer
A friend to the poor, a complex father
An author for the ages
Queen Victoria
The legacy of the workhouse
Child labor today
Foundlings and street children worldwide
How you can make a difference
More about Charles Dickens and his times.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-151) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8, B
Library of Congress
PR4592.L58 W37 2011, PR4592.L58W37 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
156 p. :
Number of pages
156

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25161886M
Internet Archive
charlesdickensst0000warr
ISBN 10
0547395744
ISBN 13
9780547395746
LCCN
2011003450
OCLC/WorldCat
694830176

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