Brief description
Manuscript fragment of 'Oliver Twist', 1837
Label
Oliver Twist was published in monthly installments in Bentley's Miscellany, the magazine owned by Richard Bentley and edited by Dickens, between 1837 and 1839. This manuscript page, which Bentley kept, contains the scene where Oliver is mistaken for a pickpocket and chased by a crowd. Dickens has crossed out a sentence where Oliver is shaken by the collar, perhaps because it was too brutal. Like most of Dickens's early writing, this was written in black ink.
Collection
Archives & Manuscripts
Object number
AA2
Object type
manuscript
Production person
Charles Dickens

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