Plans for King's Cross Station at its current location were drawn up in 1848, and the station opened with two platforms in 1852. The station acted as the London hub for the Great Northern Railway. Thus, King's Cross worked to decrease the distance between different areas of England as train travel was expanded in London.

By the mid-1800’s, power-driven machines had replaced hand labor for manufactured goods. To work these machines, factory owners turned to children, as they could be paid a lot less than an adult. Soon, child labor became a major problem in England and the U.S. as children were exploited for their cheap labor. These children would sometimes work 12 to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week and would only earn a dollar. Many of these children were also quite young, even beginning work before age seven.

East End was the "city"  in Oliver Twist.  Just like it said in my post, "the East End has historically been associated with poor areas, and it was the site of many notorious slums in the nineteenth century. The area has long been associated with the docks and industries related to shipbuilding and with silk weaving due to large groups of Huguenot weavers arriving in the end of the seventeenth century." I mean this gives so much more context. There was so much poverty in Oliver Twist and they sure did live in a slum from the descriptions in the book.

This event really provided more context for me for Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre was able to have more freedom as a working woman but then at the same time she did not. As a governess she was above the maids and but she wan't quite equal with the family she lived with. It was silly how she was in a sense teaching Grace had to be a lady although she had never been a lady herself. Jane was able to work up from being, in a sense, an orphan to marryin Mr. Rochester, one of high class. Although there was an aspect of love in Janes case, just as her job led to Jane marrying Mr.

I found this article interesting for two reasons. First, after some research I found that Charles Dickens started working in a coal factory to help out his fmaily financially. This was oretty normal for this time of the industrial revolution Second, He included this aspect of child labor in his novel Oliver Twist. I think in Oliver Twist this is one reason he was treated much older than he really was. He had multiple jobs at such a young age.