By Will Goddard
24th Oct 2021 | Local News
Members of Dawlish & District u3a (University of the Third Age) were reportedly left 'spell-bound' during a talk on Charles Dickens by a local author at its most recent meeting on Monday 18 October.
Dr Keith Hooper, a specialist on 19th century literature who did his PhD at Exeter University, spoke about the Poor Law system (the housing of the poor in workhouses, etc.), Dickens' moral agenda in exposing the hypocrisy of the supposedly Christian society of the Victorian era, and the author's apparently contradictory success in business.