Books like Victorian workhouse by Pamela Oldfield

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

Mexican farm workers must adjust to life in California during the Great Depression.

Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason from rural Wessex, whose search for faith, love and independence collides with society’s harsh conventions and leads to tragedy.

The Return of the Native follows Clym Yeobright, who returns to his Wessex home from Paris and soon marries the provocative Eustacia Vye, setting off a chain of personal turmoil.

A young boy learns the mystery of his English father, a wealthy and beloved figure he never met, as he navigates family ties, inheritance, and social life in 19th‑century England.

A historical romance set in 16th century England, featuring Lorna Doone, a young woman who is kidnapped and becomes a fugitive during the Monmouth Rebellion.

A dog's tale from 1381 England about the Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler and John Ball.

It's one of the best known scenes in all of literature--young Oliver Twist, with empty bowl in hand, asking "Please Sir. I want some more." In Dickens and the Workhouse, historian Ruth Richardson recounts how she discovered the building that was quite possibly the model for the workhouse in Dickens' classic novel. Indeed, Richardson reveals that Dickens himself lived only a few doors down from this notorious building--once as a child and once again as a young journalist. This book offers a colorful portrait of London in Dickens' time, looking at life in the streets and in the workhouse itself. Illustrated with maps, documents, photos, and illustrations, this fascinating book provides an engaging blend of history, biography and literary criticism, rooted in hitherto largely unexplored historical sources, in Dickens' own fiction and journalism, and in works of biography and criticism. Richardson's discovery made headlines worldwide. Published on the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth, Dickens and the Workhouse offers an intriguing glimpse of one of the great literary figures of the Victorian Age. - Publisher.

Rowan Hood, the gentle healer of Sherwood Forest, rises from grief to seek vengeance against the men who murdered her mother. As she leaves her Rowan Grove, she must balance her desire for revenge with the healing life she has built.

A witty collection of interweaving vignettes that explore ageing, memory, and the small rituals of everyday life.

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