Authors

Charles Dickens

in The Copy Book

There are forty-four posts in The Copy Book credited to Charles Dickens. (In the case of some authors, the list may include translations and paraphrases.)

1

Jack Cade’s Revolt

Jack Cade brought a protest to London with right on his side, but then threw it all away.

2

Rest Cure

Whenever Charles Dickens felt his exhausting workload was starting to take its toll, he knew just what to do.

3

A Time Like the Present

Charles Dickens set his historical novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) in the French Revolution seventy years before, but it was far from the dead past to him.

4

What the Romans Did for Us

The Romans did bring some blessings to Britain, but none so great as the one they did not mean to bring.

5

Money to Burn

Pip receives a visitor from among the criminal classes, but his condescending attempt to play the gentleman rebounds spectacularly.

6

Rochester Reverie

Mr Pickwick has embarked on a tour of Kent, and this sunny morning finds him leaning over the parapet of Rochester Bridge, deep in reflection.