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	Henry James Review
		Dickens has made a speciality, and with which he has been accustomed to draw alternate smiles and tears, according as he pressed one spring or another.
		Dickens's pathetic characters, she is a little monster; she is deformed, unhealthy, unnatural; she belongs to the troop of hunchbacks, imbeciles, and precocious children who have carried on the sentimental business in all Mr.
		Dickens, according to his usual plan, has made them simply figures, and between them the story that was to be, the story that should have been, has evaporated.
	humwww.ucsc.edu /dickens/OMF/james.html (1985 words)

	Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens Biography, Novels, Life, Books.
		Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the inquiry into the crash, as it would have become known that he was travelling that day with Ellen Ternan and her mother, which could have caused a scandal.
		Dickens, it should be remembered, lived in a time which preceded the Holocaust, and it can be argued that he was writing for dramatic effect: Fagin, when all is said and done, is a caricature, one of the great pantomime villains of fiction.
		Dickens' response to the (mild) criticism of Fagin emanating from the Mrs.
	www.famouspeople.co.uk /c/charlesdickens.html (2329 words)

	Charles Dickens Overview
		Though Dickens was aware of what his readers wanted and was determined to make as much money as he could with his writing, he believed novels had a moral purpose–to arouse innate moral sentiments and to encourage virtuous behavior in readers.
		Dickens' literary standing was transformed in the 1940s and 1950s because of essays written by George Orwell and Edmund Wilson, who called him "the greatest writer of his time," and a full-length study by Humphrey House, The Dickens World.
		Dickens, by his middle age, was so care-worn with deeply etched lines in his face that he looks at least ten years older; he is only fifty in the portrait on the left.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/index.html (1116 words)

	Dickens' Characters Page
		Dickens' characters are some of the most memorable in fiction.
		In a few instances Dickens based the character too closely on the original and got into trouble, as in the case of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House, based on Leigh Hunt, and Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, based on his wife's dwarf chiropodist.
		Characters such as Sweedlepipe, Honeythunder, Bumble, Pumblechook, and M'Choakumchild are recognizable as Dickensian even by those unfamiliar with the stories.
	charlesdickenspage.com /characters.html (252 words)

	Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: free web books, online
		In the hands of Dickens the original plan was entirely altered, and became the Pickwick Papers which, appearing in monthly parts during 1837–39, took the country by storm.
		In 1841 Dickens went to America, and was received with great enthusiasm, which, however, the publication of American Notes considerably damped, and the appearance of Martin Chuzzlewit in 1843, with its caustic criticisms of certain features of American life, converted into extreme, though temporary, unpopularity.
		Dickens was now in the full tide of his readings, and decided to give a course of them in America.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /d/dickens/charles (1112 words)

	Charles Dickens
		Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which created misery for the class of low-paid workers and gave birth to theories of Karl Marx.
		Dickens requested that he be buried next to her when he died and wore Mary's ring all his life.
		Dickens also had a long liaison with the actress Ellen Ternan, whom he had met by the late 1850s.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.17 (712 words)

	Charles Dickens Illustrators
		Dickens worked in close collaboration with his illustrators, supplying them with an overall summary of the work at the outset for the cover illustration which was printed on heavy colored stock, usually green, which served as a wrapper for each of the monthly parts.
		Dickens argued successfully that the stories be the main focus and the illustrations should complement the text.
		Dickens often gave detailed instructions as to the content of the illustrations to be included but many of the emblematic details are added in the illustrations Browne himself.
	members.tripod.com /~DickensFellowshipCD/dickensillustrators.htm (1921 words)

	SparkNotes: Oliver Twist: Character List
		Oliver is an orphan born in a workhouse, and Dickens uses his situation to criticize public policy toward the poor in 1830s England.
		Despite her criminal lifestyle, she is among the noblest characters in the novel.
		Dickens mercilessly satirizes his self-righteousness, greed, hypocrisy, and folly, of which his name is an obvious symbol.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/oliver/characters.html (893 words)

	Introduction -- Dickens and Laughter
		It is commonplace now to suggest that the once orthodox view of the dark Dickens was one-sided, that the early novels have been neglected, and that studies of his humour are needed.
		The important point is that Dickens often asks us to laugh at the very subjects he is, in other parts of the novel, asking us to sympathize or be angry with: death, loneliness, improvidence, rigidity, spontaneity, cruelty.
		Dickens confronts us, time and again, with these contradictory lures and, time and again, uses our alternate responses to intensify our relationship to his principal appeals.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/dickens/kincaid2/intro1.html (1918 words)

	Interactive Workshops -- In Search of the Novel
		Charles Dickens was an English novelist who was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and became one of the giants of literature.
		Dickens started out by writing sketches of London life for periodicals in 1833 that were later published as Sketches by Boz.
		Charles Dickens was married in 1836 and fathered 10 children.
	learner.org /channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Dickenspage.html (216 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dickens: Books: Peter Ackroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To try and list the contents of this book would make the review over 200000 words long so i won't even try, but when I say everything I mean EVERYthing is in here from Dickens's family to his railway accident, his feelings, emotions, beliefs, experiences and relationships.
		I frequently wondered about Dickens early life, its effect on his later development as a writer and considered the similarities with James Joyce who fell in love with his native Dublin but was so rarely there in his later life.
		Dickens himself, and the story of this great man's eventful life fascinates from beginning to end.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dickens-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0749306475 (1012 words)

	Charles Dickens Collections - Etext Conversion Project - Nalanda Digital Libray
		Dickens requested that he be buried next to her when he died and wore Mary's ring all his life.
		Dickens participated energetically in all forms of the social life of the time, "light and motion flashed from every part of it," wrote his friend and future biographer John Forster.
		Dickens had asked that he should be buried "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner".
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/charles_dickens/dickens.html (1650 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		Rarely applied to people – as Dickens’ characters apply it to Lucie Manette – the picturesque referred originally to landscapes or paintings of landscapes like those of Salvator Rosa (a 17th-century painter famous for his picturesque canvases).
		Dickens’ comparison of London breezes to “stray paupers without a settlement” invokes the system of relief for paupers (the poor) that existed in England from the 16th century until the beginning of the 19th.
		By the time Dickens was writing A Tale of Two Cities, the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act had been in effect for over twenty years, and it is possible that his reference to stray paupers, instead of invoking a bygone social nuisance, is introduced out of nostalgia for a gentler period in England’s social history.
	dickens.stanford.edu /tale/print_issue4_gloss.html (7658 words)

	Interactive Workshops -- In Search of the Novel
		Charles Dickens was an English novelist who was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and became one of the giants of literature.
		Dickens started out by writing sketches of London life for periodicals in 1833 that were later published as Sketches by Boz.
		Charles Dickens was married in 1836 and fathered 10 children.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Dickenspage.html (216 words)

	Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham
		This list is not intended to be definitive, but to stimulate your thinking and to encourage you to find your own interpretations of Pip's love.
		With them, Dickens extends his satire of society from the abuse of children and criminals to the corruption of wealth.
		Dickens sees the valuing of money and status over all else as a primary drive in society, which is dominated by the mercantile middle class.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/love.html (1292 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
		Dickens found these memories too painful to continue his autobiography; in fact, he jealously guarded the facts of his London youth.
		Dickens divides the life of Copperfield into two distinct parts, the first recounting the untimely loss of his innocence.
		Throughout the novel, Dickens addresses several important social issues of his time: the problem of prostitution in nineteenth-century London, lack of professional opportunities for women in Victorian England, need for humane treatment for the insane, the injustice of debtors' prison, and indictments against the rigidly conventional, purse-proud nineteenth-century English middle class.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/david_copperfield1.asp (1238 words)

	Homeschool World: Practical Homeschooling Articles: A Dickens of an Idea
		But aside from that, Dickens was a newspaper reporter of the debates in Parliament and if you read the facts history has brought to light about children in coal mines and children in factories, you can't help feeling that the facts of history are more imprecating than the pictures of fiction.
		Dickens' "ghosts" are from the same mold as Bunyan's "Interpreter" and "Evangelist." They are allegorical figures sent to teach the main character some needed lessons.
		The list is not something to tackle all at once, but a resource for a lifetime of reading and study.
	www.home-school.com /Articles/AndreolaDickens.html (1588 words)

	Charles Dickens at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		The novels of Dickens' later life combine extraordinary caricatures and rhetoric with an astonishing sense of social and psychological awarness.
		Dickens was the most famous author of his era, and his fame grew as he wrote more novels.
		Dickens left school at the age of 15, and was forced into hard work to support himself.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Dickens (657 words)

	Charles Dickens - Biography and Works
		Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period.
		Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812.
		Has anybody got any other characters or passages that would help me to understand this great artist who managed to explain the human condition so humanely, whilst at the same time be so flawed himself.
	www.online-literature.com /dickens (1298 words)

	Amazon.com: Great Expectations (Penguin Classics): Books: Charles Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although, as in most of Dickens and in Victorian literature in general, the plot relies heavily on coincidence, it is acceptable here because the events are true to the internal, psychological, logic of the story.
		Dickens, for whatever reason, never crossed my path in high school, and in the years since I have found myself intimidated to pick up one of his books.
		Dickens pulls you along through Pip's story with a great deal of wit and a dash of cynicism that, refreshingly, serves to enlighten the reader rather than depress them.
	www.amazon.com /Expectations-Penguin-Classics-Charles-Dickens/dp/0141439564 (2192 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Charles Dickens
		Dickens seems to have lots of fans who combine a love of his work with good web design skills, for here's another excellent website that provides a valuable overview of his life and work, as well as few nice extras such as a Dickens quote of the day and a Dickens crossword puzzle!
		Another of Dickens' ghostly Christmas tales, this work is a variation on the doppelgänger or "double" motif so prevalent (and so powerful) in the Gothic tradition, with a glance in the direction of the Faustian motif of a deal with the supernatural.
		Dickens wrote this tale, also known as "No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman," after being himself involved in a trainwreck in which he (and, apparently, his mistress) narrowly escaped injury - an incident that haunted him for the rest of his life.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/dickens.html (1211 words)

	Charles Dickens Biography and Summary
		Charles Dickens was born on Feb. 7, 1812, at Por...
		The England that Charles Dickens made famous in celebrated classics such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Christmas Carol was a fascinating mix of mysterious fogs, grimy London streets, guileless protagonists, and unscrupulous villains.
		The critic asserts that Furniss, who illustrated the Charles Dickens Library Edition after Dickens's death, was a corrective to the exaggerated, moralizing style of Cruikshank, and thus was better suited for rendering the complex vision of the author.
	www.bookrags.com /Charles_Dickens (641 words)

	Amazon.ca: Oliver Twist: Books: Charles Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Written by Charles Dickens in the 19th century this book portrays the harshness of the lives of the poor in London during the same time it was written.
		Dickens writes of an orphan boy, Oliver Twist, who runs away from the workhouse and unknowingly joins a group of robbers and pickpockets.
		The characters are far from appearing fictional; all aspects of their personalities and appearance could be someone who one could pass in the streets (excluding their 19th century attire).
	www.amazon.ca /Oliver-Twist-Charles-Dickens/dp/0812580036 (1406 words)

	Amazon.com: Dickens: Books: Peter Ackroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The most powerful impression one draws from Ackroyd's matchless story is the extent to which a protean Dickens embodied to a great degree all his mightiest creations, the dark and the bright, and not merely the plainly autobiographical Nickeby, Pip, and David Copperfield.
		Dickens was a strange man with immense drives and desires going off in many directions and personal habits that might well at times be regarded as unbalanced.
		Usually it is lengthy speculation on Dickens' emotions (including during infancy), but sometimes his actions; and sometimes the feelings and actions of his family, friends, and colleagues.
	www.amazon.com /Dickens-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0060166029 (2087 words)

	FREE Barron's Booknotes-David Copperfield by Charles Dickens-LIST OF CHARACTERS-Free Book Notes Chapter Summary Online ...
		Dickens establishes Uriah Heep as a caricature, outrageously awful, with his stock phrases and gestures and his weird mother behind him like his double.
		Dickens' political "cause" in this novel is the plight of fallen women (he was involved with running a home for such women in London).
		Emily is Dickens' main example of a fallen woman, and therefore, to make his social comment, he is very careful to present her in a sympathetic light.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/dvdcppr05.asp (1414 words)

	Charles Dickens
		Charles Dickens is considered by most to be the greatest English novelist of all time, comparable to Shakespeare within his own genre of literature.
		Dickens not only used his writing for entertainment, but as a form of political activation against the mistreatment of the impoverished English.
		It contains a list of the works in the order in which they were written, and subsequent links to websites pertaining to each.
	www.utm.edu /departments/french/dickens.html (343 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Charles Dickens - Books: Meet the Writers
		In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.
		Off all his novels, the one Dickens is said to have liked the best was also the most autobiographical.
		Richly comic and immensely readable, it is a tapestry woven of vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?userid=0IAXS3ZLIT&cid=365365 (227 words)

	The Charles Dickens Page - Awards
		In 1842, at the height of his popularity, he crossed the Atlantic to see America, but returned disappointed: "This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination." Don't miss the clever interactive map of Dickens's London.
		Dickens' London includes an interactive map of the city which allows users to click on various locations and learn how they figure into Dickens's works, and Dickens & Christmas features tidbits like a plum pudding recipe and a modern diagnosis of Tiny Tim's illness.
		Charles Dickens himself would be proud of this site and all the information it contains about him, his literature, and the London of his day.
	charlesdickenspage.com /awards.html (659 words)

	Characters come to life in Norwegian murder mystery 'Don't Look Back' - The Boston Globe
		And to this day I am grateful to the professor who loaned me his 30-year-old copy of "Murder at the Savoy," a wonderful novel by Swedes Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, whose work has, sadly, been out of print in the United States for some time.
		A mystery's effect lies in its power to make us forget that fact by making its characters seem real to us.
		Raymond Lake -- who, with the child, found Annie's body -- is a man with Down syndrome and pedophilic impulses, the sole caregiver for his elderly father, and a poignant mixture of perversion and innocence.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/03/24/characters_come_to_life_in_norwegian_murder_mystery_dont_look_back (625 words)

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