Download or read book Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859 written by Margaret Mendelawitz and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the nearly 3000 articles published in Household Words, some 100 related to Australia and have been collected in this anthology. Dickens saw Australia offering opportunities for England's poor and downtrodden to make a new start and a brighter future for themselves; optimism reflected in many of the articles.