Warren's Blacking Factory

CD 's father's imprisonment for debt at Marshalsea Prison , and his own consignment at the age of twelve to labour at Warren's Blacking Factory , had a lasting influence on the novelist. While he...

Through its fictionalised treatment of CD 's own life (including his childhood experiences at Warren's Blacking Factory ) the novel uses the Bildungsroman or Kunstlerroman form to address broad questions of social justice, including prison...