A Christmas Carol Background

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Charles Dickens from a wealthy family?

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False

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Charles Dickens childhood job

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shoe polish factory

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Poor Law of 1834

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Introduced Workhouses

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Idea of workhouses

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Punish the poor and lazy; inspire harder work.

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Inspiration for Dickens' writing about the poor

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His experience of being poor

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Charles's father sent to:

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debtor's prison

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Dickens's first novel as 'Boz'

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The Pickwick Papers

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Charles Dickens birth year

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1812

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London's population during the Industrial Revolution

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4.5 million

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Middle and upper classes' view of the poor

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Suspicious of laziness