... helped, but that wasn't always the case in the real Victorian England. Dickens was able to show how hard it was for children during the period in his famous novel, Oliver Twist (1837-39). Oliver, the main character, became an orphan and ended up in an orphanage. The conditions were terrible. They received slop to eat, and no cleansing abilities ... . Oliver was able to escape the orphanage to become a pick-pocket like most of the children during the time. It worked similar to prostitution (a job that many young women of the ... themselves doing). The boys would work (at stealing) and w...

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... from the New World, although the French invented the chip. Charles Dickens referred to a "fried fish warehouse" in his 1839 classic, "Oliver Twist." Both Lancashire and London claim to be the first to invent this famous meal. Chips were a cheap, staple food of the industrial north while fried fish was introduced to London's East End. The great fish and chip trade grew from ... ...

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