Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol
Victorian Times
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A Christmas Carol
Victorian Times

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Victorian Times 

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


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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

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Charles Dickens

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

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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

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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


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