Free exhibition - Childhood in Dickensian London (20 January - 20 June 2020)
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Want and Welfare
The living conditions, health and welfare of the poor, and particularly of children, were of great concern to Charles Dickens. In this section you will see some of Dickens’s works alongside items that consider the protection and welfare of children, both individually and collectively, in the face of the threats to their well-being in Victorian London.
The Dickens Country: Frederic Kitton, London. Adam and Charles Black, 1905
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Charles Dickens; with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-1848
The Dens of London Exposed: John Duncombe London - Printed for and published by the author, 1835
The Rookeries of London: Thomas Beames 2nd ed. London: T. Bosworth, 1852
The Child-Farm: Punch, or The London Charivari 1849
'The Old Curiosity Shop’ in Master Humphrey’s Clock: Charles Dickens; with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841
The Hospital for Sick Children Admissions Form c.1850s-1860s
Orphanhood: Free Will Offerings to the Fatherless. London: J. Nisbet, c.1850
Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens London; Nonesuch Press, 1937
A Few Words in Behalf of the Orphan Girls in Union Houses. London, 1859
Who Will Help? Windermere: printed and published by J. Garnett, c.1869