Oliver Twist | For Further Reference
Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. New York: Norton, 1973. An excellent source for background on the period in which Dickens wrote.
Collins, Philip A. W. Dickens and Crime. London and New York: Macmillan, 1962, 1964. Includes information on Dickens's depiction of crime that is pertinent to a study of Fagin and his gang.
House, Humphry. The Dickens World. 2d. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Includes an excellent discussion of the New Poor Law of 1834 and the workhouse...
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