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Charles Dickens in the 1860s.

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) remains one of the most popular of all English novelists. Many of his characters have become proverbial: Mr Micawber for naive optimism, Wackford Squeers for harsh school discipline, Uriah Heep for false humility, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge for misanthropy. His stories were one of the chief driving forces behind rising literacy in the Victorian age, and changes in public policy from schools to welfare and sanitation. All was done with charm, humour and common sense.

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A Full Day’s Play

By Charles Dickens

It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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Posted January 30

2

Rest Cure

By Charles Dickens

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

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Picture: By the Revd Thomas Streatfield (1777-1848), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.. Source.

Posted November 8 2024

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A Time Like the Present

By Charles Dickens

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.

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Picture: By Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723–1807). Public domain. . Source.

Posted May 30 2024

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What the Romans Did for Us

By Charles Dickens

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

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Posted April 9 2024

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Money to Burn

By Charles Dickens

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

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Picture: By Adolph Tidemand (1814–1876), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.. Source.

Posted September 26 2023

6

Rochester Reverie

By Charles Dickens

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.

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Picture: By Edward Dayes (1763-1804), via the Yale Center for British Art and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.

Posted September 19 2023

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