6/1/2023 0 Comments Oliver & twist![]() ![]() England was also the crown jewel of an Empire "on which the sun never set," meaning it extended across much of the known world, including Australia and New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent, and interests in Africa. A whole host of other industries sprang up to support these new modes of production (including coal energy and railroad infrastructure development), and cities grew to include vast tenements of workers recently relocated from the country. The high-point of the Industrial Revolution took place, more or less, at the time of Oliver Twist's writing the production of goods had transitioned from "cottage industries" in the countryside to centralized factories in London and in the newer cities of Manchester and Birmingham. The Victorian Period coincides with a series of political, economic, and social changes in England that are inseparable from the nature of the fiction produced. ![]()
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