Instead, we, the masses, who are asking for more, just like Oliver, will be perceived as rebellious, removed from the ...

“The workhouse served as a refuge for the city ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated and runs away to London. Here he meets the ...

3 words: London’s sewers system ... the years 1846-1860 that targeted impoverished areas such as prisons, workhouses, and slums that suffered from the worst conditions and hence contamination.

Oliver remains at the workhouse and his early years there in ... notices that a milestone indicates that it is only 70 miles to London. So Oliver makes London his destination.