Workhouses and the Workplace in Oliver Twist

         In the first six chapters of Oliver Twist, Oliver is in a workhouse where he has grown up and is taken on as an apprentice to Mr. Sowerberry. This website allows the reader to examine the first six chapters of Oliver Twist through an objective point-of-view, informing the modern reader about certain aspects of the time period and affirming and debunking any of Dickens's descriptions that were intended to thicken the plot and cause social unrest.

To navigate the website use these instructive comments:

• Pick a chapter of the text from above. 
• Read through the chapter and click the hyperlinks as desired.
• The right hand column of each chapter holds specific information about the hyper-linked words that cannot be found online.
• This column also summarizes the findings of the linked website.