Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol

Victorian Times

Victorian Times 

What about children?

The following fragment sketches just one of the many hard jobs children in the Victorian era had to do.

Rich children

• raised by a nanny & spoiled 
• hardly any contact with their parents
• not allowed to eat at the same table
• educated
• needed to marry a person from the same class

Charles Dickens

The following video gives background information about Charles Dickens. Please take notes.

Special for Dickens' novels 

• serialized stories in journals (= installments)
• cliffhangers / some characters are forgotten / influence of the public
• literature available for a wider audience 
• cheap 
• ironical/satirical
• absurd characters and absurd names

Special for Dickens's novels 

• flat and vivid characters
• most of the novels took place in the busy city
• workhouse, child labour
• mostly male characters