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Oliver Twist 2009, A Review: The Dark Seamy Side of Victorian London

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Movie review, Victorian Era, Working class, jane austen, tagged , , , , , , , on February 15, 2009 | 17 Comments »

Oliver Twist, 2009 PBS Masterpiece Classic presentation, is a fine but gritty adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel.

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Children, Poverty, & Crime in the Regency Era

Posted in Crime, Regency Life, Regency World, Working class, jane austen, tagged , on May 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »

George Barrington, Convicts Arriving at Botany Bay
In the Regency Underworld, written by Donald A. Low, there is a detailed and poignant description of the thousands of poor young boys and girls encouraged to thieve for a living by corrupt and older individuals. Many tiny, but hardened criminals that were caught were transported to penal servitude [...]

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