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"Night Walks" by Charles Dickens
Text of Charles Dickens' "Night Walks" from The Uncommercial Traveller; Dickens' description and social critique of the "houselessness" in the streets of late-victorian England.
Booth's Poverty Map
Map of London's poverty in the late 1800s
"Cultural Imperialism or Rescue? The British and Suttee"
This is an article discussing the Indian practice of suttee and its relevance to both colonial Indian and English culture, as well as connections with Jane Eyre
"Lois the Witch" in All the Year Round
A digital version of Gaskell's short story.
"Phonebooth" Poverty Map
Booth's poverty map of victorian London overlapping modern day London
The Moonstone; My thoughts
Differerent book covers of the Moonstone
A Dickensian Childhood
This video tells about Charles Dickens and his childhood growing up in a debtor's prison. This video captures a bit of the adversity that Dickens underwent as a youth.