![]() ![]() Oliver Twist (1838) portrayed the 'rookeries' of London, the crime-ridden areas from which Fagin and his gang preyed on their victims. Memories of the prison, and of his later spell working as a young boy in a blacking factory, never left Dickens and gave him a deep sense of the miseries suffered by the poor. gave a deep sense of the miseries suffered by the poor.' ![]() (His feckless parent was eventually used by Dickens as the model for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield). His own father's total incapacity for financial management had led him and his family to a debtors' prison - where the young Charles witnessed misery at very close quarters. Charles Dickens was no stranger to the poverty and despair of London and other great cities in the first half of the 19th century. ![]()
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