Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Dickens and Victorian Prostitution - Talk
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Thu, 26th April 2012 - Thu, 26th April 2012
Dickens consistently challenged the orthodoxy that prostitutes were to be regarded as ‘no longer women’. This talk explores Dickens’s portrayal of prostitutes in his novels, in particular Nancy in Oliver Twist and Martha in David Copperfield, both of whom are offered a new life, and a new identity, by enlightened benefactors.
Dr Jane Jordanis a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University and co-founder of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. Her books include a biography of the Victorian social reformer, Josephine Butler, who, like Dickens, opened a Home for Fallen Women.
Time:7.30pm
Tickets: £8, concs £6. For booking details and further information please visit www.bishopsgate.org.uk or telephone 020 7392 9200
