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Fagin's Children

Criminal Children in Victorian England

By: Jeannie Duckworth

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Fagin's Children

Criminal Children in Victorian England

By: Jeannie Duckworth

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, with Fagin, Sykes, the Artful Dodger, and children trained as pickpockets and sent out as burglar's accomplices, provides an unforgettable fictional image of the Victorian underworld. Fagin's Children is an account of the reality of child crime in 19th-century Britain and the reaction of the authorities to it. It reveals both the poverty and misery of many children's lives in the growing industrial cities of Britain and of changing attitudes toward the problem. Inevitably most is known about children who were arrested. While few children were hanged after 1800, their treatment ranged from whipping to imprisonment, sometimes in the hulks, and transportation. Increasingly, elements of training and reclamation came into a system principally aimed at punishment. Fagin's Children is an original and important contribution both to the history of Victorian crime and to the history of childhood.

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278

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826444520

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9780826444523

My Father's Glass Eye

By: Jeannie Vanasco

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My Father's Glass Eye

By: Jeannie Vanasco

My Father’s Glass Eye is Jeannie’s struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as she plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half-sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It becomes a puzzle she she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Jeannie pulls us into her unravelling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, My Father’s Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.

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214

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Prelude Books

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0715653784

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9780715653784

Jon Vickers

A Hero's Life

By: Jeannie Williams

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Jon Vickers

A Hero's Life

By: Jeannie Williams

The first biography of a legendary tenor.

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428

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UPNE

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1555536743

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9781555536749

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Best Book of the Year at TIME, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, and Electric Literature Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides—after fourteen years of silence—to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after the assault, asking the brave and urgent question: Is it possible for a good person to commit a terrible act? Jeannie interviews Mark, exploring how rape has impacted his life as well as her own. Unflinching and courageous, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl is part memoir, part true crime record, and part testament to the strength of female friendships—a recounting and reckoning that will inspire us to ask harder questions, push towards deeper understanding, and continue a necessary and long overdue conversation.

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Tin House Books

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1947793543

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9781947793545

Fagin's Children

Criminal Children in Victorian England

By: Jeannie Duckworth

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Criminal Children in Victorian England

By: Jeannie Duckworth

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My Father's Glass Eye

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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

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