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Originally Posted by garinda
Maybe she was miscast, but as I said in the other thread, there was a sizeable black population in the East End when Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, so I have no problem with her in the part because of her colour.
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Considering that Dickens was "socially conscious" and indeed criticised for writing about the lives and living conditions of the English underclass of that era ( and also for his views on the treatment of the American negro in his book American Tales) I'm surprised there is no mention of any ethnic minority in any of his books (Fagin being the exception) , maybe racism as we know it today didn't exist in Victorian England
