From the orphan begging
for more in Oliver Twist to the heartless Ebenezer Scrooge in A
Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But
did he really help change things?
It's an adjective that still echoes down the ages. Need to
emphasise the filth and squalor of a rundown housing estate or prison?
It's Dickensian.
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