The Baker’s Tale: Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens by Thomas Hauser
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Overview: Antonio runs a bakery in the fashionable area of London, yet still he is distressed by the poverty he sees all around him: “But among the poor, ignorance is a greater curse than plague or fire. There the divide between the classes looms large. The absence of learning and want of knowledge is a constant cause of misery among the downtrodden. Ignorance is the reason the poor live – that is to say, they have not yet died – in ruinous places on dangerous streets that are avoided by all but those who live there.” Mentored in his youth by the wealthy patron Octavius Joy, Antonio was apprenticed to a baker and able to improve his station through this opportunity. So his heart is deeply moved when, on a frigid winter’s night, Christopher Spriggs and his four-year-old niece Ruby —characters that we first met in The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens — arrive on his doorstep. Having suffered the loss of her mother one year previous, the child is in desperate need of food, shelter, and as Antonio can feel firsthand, a way out of their crushing poverty.
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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