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In nineteenth century Britain - and indeed in the first half of the twentieth century - many of the urban poor lived in extremely cramped conditions. Over-crowding, damp, and poor sanitation affected the daily lives of the majority of the population, with serious implications for their own and their children's health. Novelists have a major role to play in reflecting their times to their readers who may otherwise ignore social problems, and the portrayal of the wretched living conditions of the impoverished by such writers as Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century and George Orwell in the twentieth was instrumental in --- .