West Middle School

A Glossary of Dickens Terms:
http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.html

Dickens’ influence on Christmas:
http://charlesdickenspage.com/christmas.html

Dirty jobs:
http://www.victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/
http://www.wellerschimneysweeps.com/?page_id=384
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html

Counting House/Trading/Stock Market:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_house

Women’s roles:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/womens_work_01.shtml
http://www.fashion-era.com/a_womans_place.htm
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/gender-roles-in-the-19th-century

Housing for the poor:
http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london.html(scroll down to the bottom)
http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html

Workhouses/prisons:
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/victorians/workhouses.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorhouse

Orphans:
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-orphans-and-orphanages.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/childlit/childhood4.html