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
Table 1: Chronology of Dickens’s Major Works
Table 2: Chronology of Pickwick, Twist, and Nickleby
Table 4: Where Dickens Lived before ‘Boz’