Oliver Twist ends up under the care of the people he was supposed to rob: Miss Rose and her guardian Mrs Maylie. The mysterious man Monks plots with Fagin to destroy Oliver's reputation. Monks denounces Fagin's failure to turn Oliver into a criminal, and the two of them agree on a plan to make sure he does not find out about his past. Monks is apparently related to Oliver in some way. Back in Oliver's hometown, Mr Bumble has married Mrs Corney, the matron of the workhouse where the story first began, only to find himself in an unhappy marriage, constantly arguing
Oliver Twist months before the initial serialisation was completed, in three volumes published by Richard Bentley, the owner of "Bentley's Miscellany", under the author's pseudonym, "Boz". It included 24 steel-engraved plates by Cruikshank. The first edition was titled: "Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy's Progress". Serial publication dates: Oliver Twist is born and raised into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in the fictional town of Mudfog, located north of London. Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's mysterious absence, Oliver is meagerly provided for under the terms of the Poor Law and spends the first