Citations:Oliver Twistian


 * 1995, Patricia J. Williams, The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674779428, :
 * It's the kind of Oliver Twistian advice given frequently to blacks deemed middle class: be grateful for the gruel because children are starving in the inner cities.


 * 2000, Ann Rule, …And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743202791, part 1, chapter 3, :
 * Despite living in an almost Oliver Twistian situation, she was a talented and bright girl, lovely as a flower, with friends, good grades, and hopes for the future.


 * 2009, Ellen Hart, The Mirror and the Mask, Minotaur Books, ISBN 9780312375270, chapter 3, :
 * But now, here she was, five years and two months old and living with Octavia and her umpteenth husband in England, of all the cold, dreary, Oliver Twistian places, being raised by dour nannies and exposed to Octavia's temper, her self-centeredness, and her general disdain for anything that stood in the way of her film career.


 * 2010, Jacqueline Stevens, States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231148764, chapter 3, :
 * If they happen to be born into wealthy families, the wealth they obtain does not provide security against an Oliver Twistian life in the poorhouse but rather gives them a second or third house or more disposable wealth in their fifties to sixties.