Dickens felt strongly that Victorian society ... and on the other were children forced to live in dreadful conditions in workhouses. Scrooge refuses to give money In Stave I Scrooge is asked ...

Even though the poor were provided with accommodation and (inadequate) food in the workhouse, the system bore hallmarks of slavery. Victorian writer Charles Dickens was a formidable critic of the ...

The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations ... Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by his unwed mother.