Imagined OrphansWith his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of orphanages and haunting the streets of late nineteenth century London. Although poor children were often portrayed as real life Oliver Twistseither orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parentsthey in fact frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families. In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses