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Her Benny

Her Benny

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My efforts to hopscotch to the front door jumping only on books I've read is getting closer to completion! The language, vocabulary and grammar misuse put me occasionally is a state of apoplexy and nearly to tears. The language was a little hard to follow at times but was to be expected given the era it was written in.

Eventually they are compelled to run away from home after one beating too many and are rescued by watchman friend Joe Ragg and the companionable Nanny (like Nana in Peter Pan but not a dog) who continue to keep a watchful eye over them as the roam the streets. I've not read anything with this style of writing or genre, I got the book as a gift, but I did like it and it's something I'll keep for a long time. Nelly plies her trade like the little match girl selling fusees on around Castle Street and St George's Church. They are the apple of each others eye and cling together for survival like a couple of limpets on the Albert Dock wall. Abandoning Liverpool, he nearly dies of starvation and heat-stroke, but is rescued and nursed back to health by a kindly farming family.The harsh portrayal of street urchin Perks, alias John Cadger, contrasts with empathy of Charles Dickens in his creation of the Artful Dodger. In 1993 the novel was also adapted into a successful stage musical by Anne Dalton, [4] with a 25th anniversary revival in 2018. If I were to choose a reading list for those younger people interested in what life was like and still is for many on the streets of our cities even today, this book would be top of the list.

The harshness of life and death is brought easily to the minds eye of even a modern reader, and the book is certain to bring more than one tear to the eye of even the most cold hearted of readers. The combination of twee-ness and religious overtones make this a little indigestible in places but it is one of the most famous books about Victorian Liverpool and did successfully highlight the plight of children in the city. Gilt decorated blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout.Her Benny was his second novel written in 1879 at the age of twenty nine after he has spent three years working with the poor and destitute on the streets of Liverpool. When Oscar Wilde said you’d have to have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing one wonders whether he was really thinking of Hocking. Then raising his voice to a loud pitch the shouted, “Mike, come down here: there’s a chap that ‘as five pun’ in his pocket; let’s collar him quick!

The children that seem to fairly swarm in this neighbourhood are nearly all of a pale, sallow complexion, and of stunted growth. And a second time the affrighted agent fled, and gave up the situation at once, vowing he would never enter any one of those streets again while he lived. Nelly has a weak constitution and Benny considers a life of crime as a means to alleviate their suffering.Although the author is obviously familiar with the conditions suffered by the urban poor, his characters lack psychological realism and illustrate doctrine rather than convince as real people. His pathetic little sister is already close to heaven, having pink spots on her cheeks and a constant cough. Still, it seems like perfect plot fodder for a farce about a Victorian character who follows people around, dying again and again. The most positive aspects were the historical interest and the settings: the cold and gritty streets and docksides of Victorian Liverpool and the surrounding woods and fields to which Benny retreats and where he grows in faith and stature.



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