Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859

Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859

Author: Margaret Mendelawitz

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 192089926X

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Of the nearly 3000 articles published in Household Words, some 100 related to Australia and have been collected in this anthology. Dickens saw Australia offering opportunities for England's poor and downtrodden to make a new start and a brighter future for themselves; optimism reflected in many of the articles.