Social History
- The Social Context of Dickens's Novels — Chapter 2 of E. D. H. Johnson's Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels
- Charles Dickens as Social Commentator and Critic
- Dickens Liverpool speech in favor of girls schools and mechanics institutes
- “A very Moloch of a baby”: Dickens’s Funny Babies and Victorian Child Care Arrangements
- The Class Significance of "The Tuggses at Ramsgate"
- The text of "Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison," Ch. 7 in American Notes
- Child Labor
- Dickens and Social Class
- Dickens and the Parish Beadle
- Economic Contexts
- The Evolution of Victorian Capitalism and Great Expectations
- Melodrama as Theatricalized Dissent in Oliver Twist
- Charles Dickens and Two Kinds of Punch
- Dickens "the man who invented Christmas"
- Fathering Christmas: Charles Dickens and the (Re)Birth of Christmas
- “Well, Oliver, how do you like it?”: Dickens, Funerals, and Undertakers
- Dickens and Urania Cottage, the Home for Fallen Women
- Dickens's London: An annotated map from David Persue's Charles Dickens Page
- Victorian London Theater: Dickens on the Right to Amusement for the Working Class
- Charles Dickens and “the Big Stink”
- Dickens, Punch-and-Judy, and Other Itinerant Performers
- Seeing Jenny Wren as a “Child” Through the Bourgeois Lens: Narrative Distance and Absence in Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens on Advertisements
Related Materials
- Dickens and Political History, Nation and International
- Charles Dickens's Great Expectations — Social and Political Contexts
- Themes in Little Dorrit
Last modified 25 September 2022