This version depicts Rachel Verinder holding the diamond and looking scared while the Brahmins in the background are reaching for the diamond.

Depicts Rachel Verinder standing with a candelabra and the diamond in a necklace around her neck with the 3 brahmins in the background dressed as businessmen.

Historical background on victorian England's working class and the poor

Map of London's poverty in the late 1800s

Booth's poverty map of victorian London overlapping modern day London

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.

An abstract from a medical article acknowledging Charles Dickens for his writing as contributing to the field of sleep disorders

Modern day England news source, reminding citizens "when poverty meant poverty" in victorian England

Charles Dickens's novel tells about the life of an orphan named Oliver Twist. Oliver Twist begins his life in a workhouse and is soon apprenticed with an undertaker. Eventually he is able to escape from there and travel to London where he meets a…