Chimney Sweeps Children | Historical Victorian Horrors

Chimney Sweeps Children | Historical Victorian Horrors

Advantagement is an experimental sub-3,500-word short story.
The experiment is language, but I don't stop there. I share the story on my blog, and here is a piece that discusses the inspiration.
#philosophy #managementtheory #writing #shortstory #language #victorianlondon #detectives #missing #promotions #mentorship #competency #genderroles #society #culture #satire #adsurdism #clues
In sheer happenstance, I have just sighted a volume that Mr Holmes may have been deeply familar with.
Club Life of London:
With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropoplis, During the 17th, 18th and19th Centuries
by John Timbs F.S.A.
In Two Volumes
Published 1866 by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London
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https://ia600102.us.archive.org/2/items/clublifeoflondon02timb/clublifeoflondon02timb.pdf
2 new volumes of #Dickensiana in our library: "Dickensland" by @victorianlondon will take you on a trip to #CharlesDickens's #VictorianLondon - the real & the fake, shaped by #LiteraryTourism & fandom
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1858265231
“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful if would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”
“Great Expectations” Charles Dickens - 1860
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“The wind was blowing drearily. The lamps looked pale, and shook as if they were cold. There was a distant glimmer of something that was not quite darkness, rather than of light, in the sky; and foreboding night was shivering and restless, as the dying are who make a troubled end.”
“Dombey and son” Charles Dickens - 1846
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