The Real Oliver Twist
Icon Books, $39.95 hb, 468 pp
Biography
A twisted tale
by Peter Morton •
John Waller is a science historian at the University of Melbourne, and his new book is a study of the life and times of one Robert Blincoe. Though he is hardly a household name, Blincoe’s career is interesting in that he is the first factory worker in Britain’s Industrial Revolution whose biography can be reconstructed in some detail.
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