 |  | | | Charles Dickens & Urania Cottage | 11 Nov 2008 | | |
The House of Fallen Women
In 1846 Charles Dickens set up Urania Cottage in Shepherd’s Bush, a home for so-called ‘fallen’ women. For just over a decade the home taught young women from prisons, penitentiaries and workhouses, and from the streets of London basic literacy and how to cook, sew and clean. Professor Jenny Hartley joins Jane to talk about how these women who Dickens became so involved with ended up as characters on the pages of his books, not least in Little Dorritt, currently being dramatised by the BBC.
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women by Jenny Hartley is published by Methuen ISBN 978 -0-413-77643-3
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