A symbol of Victorian England’s inequitable nature made infamous by Charles Dickens, ... The author of the Obama-era guidance on debtors' prisons, Lisa Foster, ...

We are smug to believe that we are nothing like Victorian England. But debtor’s prisons and poor laws have not disappeared. They have rather developed into modern-day hidden debt laws.

Victorian England. The debtors’ prisons, made so famous by the novels of Charles Dickens, confined debtors until their debts had been paid. But, behind bars, they were unable to earn any money, and so ...

Dickens was haunted all his life by the shame of his father's sentence, and the menial work he had to do, and told very little about it. Debtors prisons were a constant presence looming over the ...

“In a prison he would always ask if there were debtors,” she says. “And he would go and see them.” * The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, has the desk at which he wrote ...

England's prisons are over-crowded. The Industrial Revolution at the end of the century leads to the displacement of many people and an increase in petty crime. Numbers are swelled by debtors and in ...

Dickens was not alone in his fictional representation of the 'condition of England' - other examples include Benjamin Disraeli's Sibyl, or the Two Nations (1845), and Mrs Gaskell's Mary Barton ...

Like many of Dickens's stories, the show is set against the backdrop of Victorian England and underscores themes of class disparity and poverty. However, despite its somber themes, many viewers ...

Little Dorrit is a BBC miniseries based on the often-overlooked Charles Dickens novel by the same name, first published in the 1850s. Set in a similar time period, the show follows the unusual ...