Description
About the Author
Ruth Richardson is a historian and the author of a number of books. The Wall Street Journal described her last book, The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy (Oxford University Press) as 'one of those rarities, history that reads like a novel'. That book won the 2009 Medical Journalists' Open Book Award.
Reviews
[Richardson] conjures up vivid images of poverty-stricken Victorian London and deepens our understanding of the sense of outrage that compelled Dickens to bring the predicament of the poor to wider attention. * Glasgow Herald *
It is a lively, compassionate, and revealing account of the man and his times. * Lesley McDowell , Independent on Sunday *
Intriguing volume * Daily Mail *
Richardson's enthusiasm for her subject shines throughout this hugely engaging and informative book * BBC History Magazine *
The important discoveries in this surprising book come from an intimate knowledge of Dickens and London, coupled with a historian's passion. We're seized by the hand of a detective and walked into Dickens's world. Unputdownable. * Miriam Margolyes *
The book offers a detailed study of the Dickens's family home and its surrounding neighbourhood, as well as an evocative and damning portrait of Britain's de-facto 'prison system to punish poverty'. * New Yorker *
Gives an intimately evoked view of Dickens's childhood and the New Poor Law of 1834 by which workhouses became 'a sort of prison system to punish [the poor]. * New York Review of Books *
Pulls off that rare combination of a perfectly and thoroughly executed piece of academic research whilst remaining not only immensely readable but positively compelling ... this book is wonderful. * London Historians *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199681280
Author Ruth Richardson
Format Paperback
Page Count 392
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 21mm