TY - BOOK AU - Warren,Andrea TI - Charles Dickens and the street children of London SN - 9780547395746 (hbk.) : AV - PR4592.L58 W37 2011 U1 - 823.8B 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children KW - Dickens, Charles, KW - Novelists, English KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Street children in literature KW - Poor in literature KW - London (England) KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-151) and index; The man in the shadows -- The poor people of London -- The early years -- A working-class boy -- Growing up -- Becoming a writer -- The workhouse -- Oliver Twist -- The sea captain who rescued foundling children -- The great benefactors : Handel, Hogarth, and Dickens -- Closing England's worst schools -- Sending ragged children to school -- Giving from a charitable heart -- A dedicated reformer -- A friend to the poor, a complex father -- An author for the ages -- Queen Victoria -- The legacy of the workhouse -- Child labor today -- Foundlings and street children worldwide -- How you can make a difference -- More about Charles Dickens and his times N2 - Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any age ER -