Dickens, while visiting America in 1842, noted in a letter home to his friend John Forster that the salary paid to his traveling secretary, George Washington Putnam, was ten dollars a month, worth about two pounds five shillings in English money (Forster, 1899, v. 1, p. 208). Privy C...
Callow first appeared as Dickens doing public readings on television on BBC-2 in December 1996.The BBC, possibly feeling the need today to proclaim its dedication to public broadcasting, seldom hesitates to trumpet its cultural hegemony. The Corporation did not hold back on this occasion, claiming...
“Nothing pushes the nostalgia button at Christmastime more than Charles Dickens’sA Christmas Carol,with its warming images of a candlelit tree and Victorian plenitude. Yet prior to the 19th century, Christmas was a very different holiday, and it was only in the Victorian era that our concept...
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER CHAPTER I--HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS Allow me to introduce myself--first negatively. No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships m
Why is the Stone Lodge library a significant setting in "Hard Times," a novel by Charles Dickens? How do Marianne and Elinore symbolize the tension between the intellectual strains of romanticism and rational pragmatism? What are the merits, worth, and significance of the book...
Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens. His impressive and supposedly hard-to-forge beard was reportedly a contributing factor in this choice. ...
The Bung party ordered one shilling’s-worth of muffins weekly for the remainder of the old woman’s natural life; the parishioners were loud in their exclamations; and the fate of Spruggins was sealed.It was in vain that the twins were exhibited in dresses of the same pattern, and ...
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[156] Darwin came fourth in the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.[157] In 2000 Darwin’s image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens. His impressive, luxuriant beard (which was reportedly difficult to forge) was...