Oliver Twist

Good evening.
I started to read "Oliver Twist."
Oliver is an orphan because his mother died when he was born and he was in a workhouse.
However children who were there were treated badly and given only a few meal.
It was a terrible place! And he tried to ask much soup but he was punished and entered a dark room.
So terrible!!!! I was so sad.
Then Oliver was taken to another workhouse by Mr Bumble who is a beadle.
Oliver felt lonely and he cried. It was an undertaker house and he was made him to be an undertaker forcibly there.
This story is quite heavy to read...but I want to know about the real condition of that period.
So I try to keep reading it.
Thank you for reading!