The Real Oliver Twist

The Real Oliver Twist

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  • Author: John Waller
  • Publisher: Icon Books
  • ISBN: 1840464704
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 481

From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.


Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
  • ISBN: 1607541521
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In 19th century London, the trusting orphan Oliver escapes factory work, only to fall in with a gang of nefarious thieves.


A Memoir of Robert Blincoe

A Memoir of Robert Blincoe

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  • Author: John Brown
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • ISBN: 9781091949423
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 100

Robert Blincoe (c. 1792-1860) became famous during the 1830s for his popular "autobiography" detailing the horrific account of his childhood spent as a labourer in English cotton mills. This work, however, is not technically an autobiography as his story was told to journalist John Brown, who wrote the manuscript but died before publishing it. The manuscript was given to a friend who published the resulting book, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, in five episodes in the magazine The Lion in 1832. Historian John Waller has asserted that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Blincoe, but no firm documentary or anecdotal evidence exists that this is true. Still, the publication of Blincoe's "memoir" had an impact on bringing the horrors of child labour to a wider audience, which in turn led to legislation to limit working hours and improve working conditions for child labourers.


Oliver Twist Illustrated

Oliver Twist Illustrated

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 558

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.


Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?

Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?

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  • Author: Lynn Hamilton
  • Publisher: Pen and Sword History
  • ISBN: 1399054562
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factories, and child criminal gangs posed lethal and daily hazards to children born to poverty. Several much-needed reforms took place in the aftermath of Oliver Twist’s publication. But what were the circumstances of childhood poverty in Victorian London and other English cities? And who were the real Oliver Twists? This book explores how nineteenth century laws and social institutions entirely failed to protect children born to poor and unstable families. Despite a horrible labyrinth of ten-hour workdays, illegal indentures, and forced emigration, however, many children overcame terrible prospects and thrived. Some of these remarkable stories of childhood resilience, innovation, and enterprise have been lost to the general reader. This book brings those stories back to light.


Dickens' London

Dickens' London

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : London (England)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278


Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141920262
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 785

'The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive' WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction of a dark criminal underworld peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic romance, the Newgate novel and popular melodrama, Oliver Twist created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. Edited with an Introduction and notes by PHILIP HORNE


A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist

A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist

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  • Author: Alex Goodwin
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
  • ISBN: 9781632867087
  • Category : Humor
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

From the roly-poly guinea pigs who brought you A Guinea Pig Nativity and A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudicecomes this adorable adaptation of Dickens' beloved novel Oliver Twist! We’ve admired guinea pigs in bonnets edged with delicate lace and dapper top hats in A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice, swooning over the love between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. We’ve oohed and ahhed over guinea pigs in the sweet, hay-filled manger in A Guinea Pig Nativity. Now, in A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist, we’ll delight in the adorable little pigs with expressive eyes dressed in the tattered rags of street urchins and orphans that roamed the streets in gritty 19th-century London. At only nine years old, Oliver Twist is transferred from an orphanage to a workhouse for adults. He is sold to an undertaker as an apprentice, and finally escapes to London, where he joins a gang of pickpocketing street urchins led by Fagin, an older criminal. But young Oliver isn't made for a life of crime, and is upset when his compatriots steal an elderly gentleman's handkerchief. Mr. Brownlow, the owner of the handkerchief, senses Oliver's true nature and takes him in, but the band of thieves won't let Oliver live a straight and narrow life; they kidnap him and drag him back into a life on the street. Forced to assist in a burglary, Oliver is shot and again taken in by the victims of the crime. One of the women, it turns out, is his aunt, and once Mr. Brownlow formally adopts Oliver, they all begin a blissful life in the country. This compact little book is illustrated by dozens of photographs of our favorite guinea pig actors and actresses.


A Time Before Oliver

A Time Before Oliver

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  • Author: Eleanor Thomson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780006497141
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 571

This work takes the two characters, Bill Sikes and Nancy, from the classic Dickens novel Oliver Twist, and imagines their lives before they met Oliver. It is the story of two orphans, struggling to survive in 19th-century London.


The Real Oliver Twist

The Real Oliver Twist

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  • Author: John Waller
  • Publisher: Icon Books Limited
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 496

From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before.