Charles Dickens (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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Dickens is generally considered to be the preeminent novelist of Victorian England. His novels include Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-1853), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). His novel Oliver Twist, about an orphaned boy who runs away from a workhouse and falls under the influence of an unscupulous Jewish thief named Fagin, was the subject of a censorship effort in New York in 1949. The case of Rosenberg v. Board of Education of the City of New York involved a complaint made in the New...

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