charles dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was the quintessential Victorian novelist. He gave the world a host of characters like Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist, who live on in popular culture. Born to lower middle-class parents, Dickens' childhood ended at age 12 when he was put to work in a blacking factory, following the arrest of his father for debt. This experience colored his fiction, which often focuses upon orphans making their way in the world, and upon irresponsible parents.

Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time. It is a testament to his creative genius that a story such as A Christmas Carol, for example, seems always to have been a part of the cultural fabric, though it was not written until 1843. Dickens was a remarkably dramatic, emotional writer, at turns highly comic and equally tragic. Not surprisingly, Dickens had a strong interest in the theater.

There are a few blogs devoted solely to Dickens' life and works. He is also discussed on blogs about Victorian life and literature in a more general sense.

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• “Sir Arthur Aston had his brains beaten out with his own wooden leg” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

  
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  October 22d.—At a dinner-party at Mr. Holland’s last evening, a gentleman, in instance of Charles Dickens’s unweariability, said that during some theatrical performances in Liverpool he acted in play and farce, spent the rest of the night making speeches, feasting, and drinking at table, and ended at seven ...
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• Hard Times by Charles Dickens

  
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  In gauging fathomless deeps with his little mean excise-rod, and in staggering over the universe with his rusty stiff-legged compasses, he had meant to do great things.  Within the limits of his short tether he had tumbled about, annihilating the flowers of existence with greater singleness of purpose than many of ...
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• Nicholas Nickleby (1839)

  
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  Nicholas Nickleby. Charles Dickens. 1839. 817 pages. I definitely enjoyed reading Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Soon after the novel opens, three members of the Nickleby family (Mrs. Nickleby, Nicholas, and Kate) travel to London to visit with Ralph Nickleby (Nicholas and Kates uncle.) ...
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• Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone and The Woman In White

  
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  Hmmm… I read Dickens, rather than Collins, at A-level, which is interesting because the Dickens that I read was Bleak House and it reintroduced me to a love for Dickens ( Q. Do you like Dickens? A. I don’t know, I’ve never been to one. [That’s lowered the tone, but it’s still one of my favourite jokes]) ...
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• Working Hard

  
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  I have been working hard lately and my brain has just been tired.  So I have not been blogging at the frenetic pass I had earlier this year.  I was working so hard that last week I spent a day at the other facility ran by my new employers.  Now this jail is the older building, dating from around the 1960s and it ...
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• Lionel Asbo: What the dickens, Martin Amis!

  
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  Martin Amis is a brilliant writer and he really lets it rip in his novel, Lionel Asbo. The colourful characters could be descended straight from Charles Dickens. Amis writes about the modern English chav with the same gusto as Dickens wrote about Victorian low life. Lionel Asbo in some ways recalls David Copperfield ...
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• I am proud to announce the publication of my first guest blog...

  
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  I am proud to announce the publication of my first guest blog post on the WriteToDone.com website. Modelling expert text is something I learned about in teachers’ college and have used many times over the years, both as a tool with which to develop my own writing voice (as I discuss in the article) as well as with ...
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• The Tombs: New York’s notoriously named prison

  
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  Can you imagine if the city of today sold postcards of Rikers Island? At the turn of the last century, however, it apparently was no big deal to put an image of New York’s house of detention on penny postcards and sell them to tourists. This city jail was built in 1902, taking its nickname from the infamous ...
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• Gleanings from Dickens

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman Some time ago I read Sidney P. Moss’s 1984 book Charles Dickens’ Quarrel with America . Those who remember Martin Cuzzlewit and the last chapter of American Notes must have a good idea of the “quarrel.” However, this post is, naturally, not on the book or on Dickens’s nice ...
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• Cocktail Talk: The Old Curiosity Shop, Part III

  
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  Well, it’s been a fine week (or, thereabouts. Or, my week may be different than yours. One of those) of Dickens Cocktail Talk posts, with all of them from his lesser-known, but still a book that should be on your “must-read” list, novel The Old Curiosity Shop . You know what’s funny? At least relating to ...
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• Why Anthony Trollope is a Better Version of Charles Dickens

  
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  On the surface, there appear to be many similarities between Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens: they were both born in the mid-1810s; both had a troubled childhood, marred by their fathers’ sudden decent into debt, and both became respected chroniclers of life in the Victorian era. But one big difference: whilst ...
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• Cocktail Talk: The Old Curiosity Shop, Part II

  
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  If you didn’t read The Old Curiosity Shop , Part I , you might want to, or just check out all Charles Dickens Spiked Punch posts . Cause I don’t want to take a lot of pre-amble, as this post will have a quote from that classic book, as well as a recipe that relates to the quote (cause I like to have Friday ...
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• I love to read

  
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  When I get into a book it can be hard to get me out of it. I will often be found reading while brushing my teeth, getting dressed or making dinner. I think that is why I have come to love my e-reader so much. It’s no-hands reading. I have even been known to upsize the font and prop it on a treadmill during a run. ...
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• Take a Chance on Me: the Rise of Interactive Theatre

  
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  It wasn’t until nearly four hundred years after its earliest concepts that opera evolved into the incarnation that comes to modern mind. By comparison, the contemporary notion of musical theatre is nascent at best having only recently come on the scene within the last century. Art isn’t easy to predict, and it’s ...
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• Cocktail Talk: The Old Curiosity Shop, Part I

  
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  Hey, readers of this blog, you should know this: I’m a big fan of Charles Dickens. Heck, there are a couple Charles Dickens Cocktail Talk posts on here already (as well as a few other odds and sods related to him). He had the stuff, in my opinion. And, so I regularly re-read him, and recently did such with The ...
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• Literary Grave Hunting

  
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  A curious hobby Graveyards are some of my favorite places to explore. Not for any morbid reason, mind you. I don’t find them spooky (though I don’t tend to walk through them at night) or even melancholy. Instead, I browse the graves for striking names, notably short or long life spans, twisting family ...
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• A Rose By Any Other Name

  
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  Names are important. Think about it. Would you want to be named Benedict Arnold? Immediately brings to mind a traitor, right? Or what about Adolph Hitler? Super villain, hmm? Well, the same holds true for your fictional characters. Choosing names is a huge part of character development. Charles Dickens is the ...
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