Dickens was placed in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, along with his wife and his children, with the exception of his 12-year-old son, who was put to work in a factory.

Is there any phrase more Dickensian than "debtor's prison"? The term conjures the trappings of a lost epoch of society, as history has a way of cobwebbing even prison walls enough to make them ...

His interest in the fate of prisoners thus went a good deal further than simple memories of the debtors’ prison or notes of a court reporter. He identified himself readily with the thief, and ...

Tom Hawkins, the 25-year-old wastrel son of an English minister, has the misfortune to land in London’s hellish debtors’ prison, the Marshalsea Gaol. With his life and sanity at stake, Hawkins ...

When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father's debts finally caught up with him, and he was sent to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. (It was a baker who sent him there.

In the Lyric Feature on Sunday 29th February, Patricia Baker goes in search of the hidden history of a place behind a locked door in Dublin ...

Debtors’ prison — surely one of humankind’s worst ideas — was abolished in England by the Bankruptcy Act of 1869. The Marshalsea was mostly destroyed.

Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit's brother.

An amnesty was announced for most debtors, including some who had paid off creditors years before, only to remain stuck behind bars because of the crippling prison fees.

His father John, a clerk, was arrested and locked up in Marshalsea, a notorious debtors’ prison when he fell on hard times. It became Dickens’ job to push his childhood aside, leave his ...

Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward, Amy Dorrit's brother.