The Truthful and Bitter Cry of Ragged Hooligans and Dirty Minxes
In Oliver Twist (1841), Charles Dickens chose as his subject matter Londons criminal underbelly, filling the novel with boy pick-pockets, girl prostitutes, murderers and house-breakers, thus horrifying many of his readers. In the preface to the book, Dickens wrote: It is, it seems, a very coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in … Read more