Arthur Morrison: Social Sensationalist?
Arthur Morrison was an English writer who grew up in the East End of London in the mid 19th century. When he became a published author, he hid his working-class background but still took an interest in sharing the living…
Charles Dickens: Social Reformer?
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 to an upper middle class English family and spent his childhood in the coastal suburbs of Portsmouth. When his father was incarcerated in debtor’s prison at Marshalsea (1878, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp57-75), the family moved from the coast…
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