Imagined orphans : poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London /

With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, ne...

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Main Author: Murdoch, Lydia, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007, ©2006.
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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