CONTENTS

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