Charles Dickens Clip Art Image

Charles Dickens. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos and Images . A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, first published in serial form by Chapman & Hall on December 17, 1843. Image 30 year old Charles John Huffam Dickens 1842 by Francis Alexander (1800-1880) editing by sookietex

Dickens was keenly touched by the lot of poor children in the middle decades of the 19th century. In early 1843, he toured the Cornish tin mines, where he saw children working in appalling conditions. The suffering he witnessed there was reinforced by a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, one of several London schools set up for the education of the capital's half-starved, illiterate street children.

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