Mr F's Aunt(Little Dorrit)PIXCompanion toFlora Finching(Aunt to her late husband) and one of the funniest characters in Dickens. Dickens describes her asAn amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap for expression, and a stiff yellow wig perched unevenly on...
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Characters in The Mystery of Edwin Drood Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What is unusual about ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood''? The Mystery of Edwin Drood is unusual because it is unfinished. Charles Dickens originally intended to write the novel in twelve parts, but he only wrote ...
Christmas is fast arriving so we went in search of some related monuments in London and found one depicting two famous characters from an iconic Yuletide text. Located on the site of a house where 19th century writer Charles Dickens wrote six of his famous books, includingA Christmas Carol, i...
The row of houses in which the old lady and her troublesome neighbour reside, comprises, beyond all doubt, a greater number of characters within its circumscribed limits, than all the rest of the parish put together. As we cannot, consistently with our present plan, however, extend the ...
novels.Some of these characters possess great vitality.Thackeray drew a comparison between himself and Dickens: "I am played out.All I can do now is to bring out my old puppets. . .But, if he lives to be ninety,Dickens will still be creating new characters. In his art that man is ...
Bradley Headstone, the schoolmaster in Our Mutual Friend, is thought to have suffered from epilepsy. Indeed, his being 'seized with giddiness' likely represented a seizure. Headstone was not alone among Dickens characters in his condition. Monks, a sinister and sickly character in Oliver Twist, ...