Sources in Literary History
The descriptions of child poverty are evocative of the novels by Charles Dickens. Dickens himself visited New York in the early forties and wrote the Book "American Notes". Another possible source is George G. Foster's New York by Gas-light and Other Urban Sketches (1850).
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