Childhood and schooling Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, at Portsea (later part of Portsmouth) on the southern coast of England, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second born of eight children. His father was a pay clerk in the navy office. Because ...
On contemplating the lunacy of his clerk, Bob Cratchit, taking on a wife and family on 15 shillings a week, Ebenezer Scrooge laments "I'll retire to Bedlam" (A Christmas Carol). Dickens describes the mob during the Gordon Riots: "If Bedlam gates had been flung wide open, there would ...
“Dickens dead?” exclaimed a London costermonger’s girl in 1870. “Then will Father Christmas die too?”—a tribute both to his association with Christmas and to the mythological status of the man as well as of his work. The Carol immediately entered the general consciousness; William ...
from Ordnance Terrace to 18 St Mary's Place, an area known as the Brook. The house was next to a Baptist church where Dickens' teacher, William Giles', father was minister. Peter Ackroyd inDickenssays that this was a step down from the house at Ordnance Terrace and may have signalled...
CHARLES DICKENS Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite his deprived beginnings, he became the best-selling writer of his time. In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a ...
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By New Years Eve, the book had sold fifteen thousand copies, and Dickens had honoured his promise. Throughout the United Kingdom, people spoke the names Scrooge, Cratchit, Fezziwig... and Marley. Dickens believed that if all children, whatever their circumstance, could attend school, society ...
Mrs.Lirriper'sLodgingsisastorybyCharlesDickens,anEnglishnovelistwhosecharactersareamongthemostmemorableinEnglishliterature.MrsLirriper'sLodgingswasfollowedbyMrs.Lirriper'sLegacywhichwasfirstpublishedinhisAlltheYearRoundmagazine'sExtraChristmasNumber(1864).Mrs.Lirriperisawarm-heartedlandladywhokeepsarespectable...
Lane, Miss(Nicholas Nickleby) Governess to theBorumchildren.(top) Langdale(Barnaby Rudge) Kindly vintner and distiller in Holborn based on an historical figure. The Catholic Langdale sheltersGeoffrey Haredalefrom the rioters. His home and warehouse are burned in the riots, his stores of spirits ...
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