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Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond

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Dickens had no love for lawyers. He had been trained briefly at Gray's Inn and later worked as a law-reporter. Both experiences seem to have left him jaded as the long line of distasteful lawyers in his novels - from Dodson and Fogg onwards - clearly indicates. At the same time he was well aware that close to the 'nest of lawyers' (as he called the Inns) lay some of London's worst slums and criminal haunts.

The talk

  1. Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond 2006-11-07 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Year
2006
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
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