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Great Expectations Great Expectations was written in the late 19th Century, serialized from December 1860 to August 1861. It is set, however, in the early 19th Century when Dickens was a child himself. At this time the treatment of children was very different. The class system was very much enforced and working class children did not have a childhood especially in cities. They did not have fun or time to play and they didn't expect it. Children often experienced violence from an early age at home, school and work. If children did have leisure time there would most likely be nothing provided for them and they often wouldn't have any friends as there wouldn't be many people in a rural area and in the early 19th Century children didn't have to go to school and an awful lot didn't, at least not regularly. A lot of children died very young as...

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