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A twisted tale

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February 2007, no. 288

The Real Oliver Twist by John Walker

Icon Books, $39.95 hb, 468 pp

A twisted tale

by
February 2007, no. 288

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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