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	Charles Dickens Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dickens was fascinated by the theatre as an escape from the world, and theaters and theatrical people appear in Nicholas Nickleby.
		Dickens, it should be remembered, lived in a society which pre-existed 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 fictions.
		Dickens died in 1870 while writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_dickens.html (978 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Charles Dickens
		Charles was the oldest of the Dickens children, and a result of his father's imprisonment, he was withdrawn from school and sent to work in a shoe-dye factory.
		Within the community, Dickens actively fought for social issues; such as education reform, sanitary measures, and slum clearance, and he began to directly address social issues in novels such as Dombey and Son (1846-48).
		Dickens was required to abandon his reading tours in 1869 after his health began to decline.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Dickens.html (704 words)

	MSN Encarta - Charles Dickens
		Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast.
		Dickens published 15 novels, one of which was left unfinished at his death.
		Dickens was influenced by the reading of his youth and even by the stories his nursemaid created, such as the continuing saga of Captain Murderer.
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	Dickens' Fiction and Journalism
		Philip and Neuberg tell their readers that Dickens' belief that the world is inhabited by some incurably bad characters and his "innate love of order" prompted the author to identify "in the battle of wits between society and its outcasts with authority" (Philip and Neuberg 43).
		Dickens' affinity for officers of the law is not limited to the police officers of London and the jailers of Newgate, however.
		Dickens' description of their wait on the river for a steamer heading to a foreign nation demonstrates clearly how familiar the author's journalism has made him with the ways of the river.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/journlsm.html (3483 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 (1124 words)

	Dickens' London Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dickens' genius was thrust upon the world stage at a time of intense change in London and probably none more dramatic than that of the coming of the railroad.
		Dickens, by all indications, was a moderate drinker himself.
		Dickens, because of the childhood trauma caused by his father's imprisonment for debt and his consignment to the fling factory to help support his family, was a true champion to the poor.
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london.html (2004 words)

	Dickens: A Brief Biography
		When the family finances were put at least partly to rights and his father was released, the twelve-year-old Dickens, already scarred psychologically by the experience, was further wounded by his mother's insistence that he continue to work at the factory.
		Dickens proceeded to marry Catherine Hogarth on April 2, 1836, and during the same year he became editor of Bentley's Miscellany, published (in December) the second series of Sketches by Boz, and met John Forster, who would become his closest friend and confidant as well as his first biographer.
		Dickens, charming and brilliant though he was, was also fundamentally insecure emotionally, and must have been extraordinarily difficult to live with.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/dickens/dickensbio1.html (1621 words)

	Dickens, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Dickens wrote rapidly, sometimes working on more than one novel at a time, and usually finished an installment just when it was due.
		Dickens was working furiously, editing and contributing to the magazines Household Words (1850–59) and All the Year Round (1858–70) and managing amateur theatricals.
		Dickens was particularly successful at evoking the sights, sounds, and smells of London, and the customs of his day.
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/Dickens.html (780 words)

	Dickens' famous 'Carol' overshadowed 4 more holiday novellas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dickens was creating an idyll he never experienced himself, and to modern readers the novella's depiction of family life is wildly unrealistic.
		Dickens seems to be working toward a moral lesson, but the point he's trying to make is unclear, and the introduction isn't integrated in any way with the rest of the story.
		Dickens was so traumatized that he couldn't even walk down the London street where the factory stood until late middle age, after his oldest son was grown.
	www.jsonline.com /letsgo/daily/1129dickens.stm (2353 words)

	Charles Dickens
		Although Dickens was baptized and reared in the Church of England and was a nominal Anglican for most of his life, he turned to Unitarianism in the 1840s as a Broad Church alternative.
		Elizabeth Dickens, a keen observer, a talented mimic and a dramatic storyteller, was her son's first teacher.
		Dickens had begun to age noticeably after he and Ellen Ternan were in in the 1865 Staplehurst railway accident.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/charlesdickens.html (2802 words)

	David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dickens was 19th century London personified, he survived its mean streets as a child and, largely self-educated, possessed the genius to become the greatest writer of his age.
		Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office.
		His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824.
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens (552 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Stage frights
		As well as being our greatest novelist, Dickens developed a new, composite art form in his stage performances, acting out specially adapted passages from his own works and varying his expressions and speech patterns, so that it seemed as if he were becoming possessed by the characters he created.
		Dickens was fascinated by the stage: he had seriously considered becoming an actor as a young man, and had a small theatre fitted up at his house in Tavistock Square.
		On top of the stand, Dickens kept the reading copies that he made of his texts - special versions of the Christmas books and passages from his novels, pasted into volumes with extra-wide margins, to allow for his scribbled alterations and stage directions to himself.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1134402,00.html (1021 words)

	World Wide School Library - Literature-Charles Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		England's Court of Chancery and its lawyers are the villains and targets of Dickens' pointed criticism in what is considered by many to be one of his best novels.
		The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever.
		Dickens sketched with words and wit and brought life to the naive Samuel Pickwick and his friends in episodic accounts of the Pickwick Club.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-charlesdickens.html (853 words)

	Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author
		When Charles Dickens was a small boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, he got lost in the City, the teeming financial and commercial center of the great metropolis of London.
		The Chatham idyll ended abruptly when John Dickens was transferred to London in 1822, a move that in no way inspired him to remedy the ill management of his affairs, which continued to bring terrible strains upon the household and creditors to the door.
		But Elizabeth Dickens could not comprehend why he should be removed from a situation of gainful employment--and for her son, this was a bitter betrayal.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701768/session1.html (1614 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The main frame of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is a quintessential Dickens: a generic, virtuous man who concerns with the affair of establishing his identity as a gentleman and the pruning of whom entwines him in a checkered fate.
		All Dickens novels are loaded with the stuff of glory, but never too far fetched that he can't drive home the plight of the impoverished, the cycles of poverty and the deep suffering he witnesses daily in the streets of London.
		Dickens is noted for his social commentaries with his books, and with this one he took shots at an actual private school - Dotheby's Hall and it's master Wackford Squeer - and the book actually did cause reforms to be implemented in the infamous school.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140435123?v=glance (2900 words)

	Charles Dickens - Free Online Library
		Charles Dickens was born on Friday, February 7, 1812 in Landport, Hampshire.
		Additionally, Dickens also had a long-lasting relation with the actress Ellen Ternan, whom he had met by the late 1850s.
		From the 1840s Dickens spent much time traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time.
	dickens.thefreelibrary.com (887 words)

	Charles Dickens - Complete works of Charles Dickens, Biography, Quotes
		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 distinquished himself as an essayis in 1834 under the pseudonym Boz.
	www.dickens-literature.com (811 words)

	Fiction: Charles Dickens
		When his father was imprisoned for outstanding debts Dickens was pulled out of school at the age of 12 and forced to work in a bootfling factory to support his family.
		Dickens returned to school when his father was released from jail, but stopped for good at the age of 15.
		Charles Dickens died in 1870, and today is generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/dickens.htm (424 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: DICKENS, TX
		Dickens, the county seat of Dickens County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 82 and State Highway 70, eight miles below the Caprock of the Llano Estacado
		On February 17, 1892, town lots were sold a half mile west of the previous settlement, and during the year Dickens replaced Espuela as the county seat.
		The town continued to thrive during the early 1900s; the population increased from 176 in 1900 to its maximum of 500 by 1927.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/DD/hld23.html (433 words)

	Charles Dickens: Novelist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles Dickens, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens, was born in Landport on 7th February 1812.
		Dickens considered most politicians to be "pompous" who seemed to spend most of the time speaking "sentences with no meaning in them".
		Charles Dickens was pleased when Parliament eventually agreed to pass the 1832 Reform Act, however, like most radicals, he thought it did not go far enough.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRdickens.htm (1554 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		As always with a new Dickens novel, the public eagerly awaited what Dickens joked were weekly "teaspoons" of the novel.
		Stanford is once again proud to share with you one of the fine holdings of its Special Collections, as well as to invite you to share in Dickens' lively meditation on education and the early years of the industrial north.
		Dickens' profound concern for the rearing of children in a newly "scientific" age rings as true today as it did when it was written 150 years ago.
	dickens.stanford.edu (392 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		If you have not yet read any Dickens, this is not a bad book with which to start, although for younger readers (teens) I would recommend Hard Times or A Tale of Two Cities as their first.
		Dickens went a long way to get into the mind of his narrator, and it works beautifully, as we struggle with Pip in every decision and look back with him at the bad decisions that he made.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the illustrations reproduced in Peter Ackroyd's majestic account of Charles Dickens is a famous painting by Robert William Buss.
		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 /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099437090 (785 words)

	Charles Dickens
		Dickens received greater recognition during his lifetime than previous authors.
		Dickens was undoubtedly influenced by earlier English writers such as William Shakespeare and Henry Fielding; however, much of the knowledge and insights that he later applied as an author came from his keen observations and experiences.
		The friendship and recognition of such a man were of inestimable value to the younger writer; and the intimacy continued unbroken until Dickens died in 1870.
	www.42explore.com /dickens.htm (2170 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
		"Despite the great length of his major novels, Dickens deserves to be read slowly, with delectation, with occasional pauses to reread a choice passage, because he is one of the most inventive and vigorous stylists in the whole range of English literature.
		Style, as we know, has many facets, and Dickens's powerful rhythms, his supple patterns of alliteration, the hammer-blows of the anaphoric insistence he often favors, the cunning interplay of different linguistic registers he sometimes introduces, are all worthy of attention.
		This extensive biography tells of Dickens' life, efforts at social reform, and discusses the social impact and popularity of many of his writings.
	www.ipl.org /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=dic-25 (739 words)

	The Reading Experience: On Charles Dickens
		And Dicken's novels are full of such characters, all of them at once both distinctive and colorful as well as fully recognizable as "types" that must have been instantly recognizable to readers in Victorian England--creating this sort of characterization itself being one of Dickens's great gifts, perhaps unrivaled by any other novelist.
		And Dickens' popularity is a symptom of his heartlessness: the typically British mixture of pity and cruelty.
		I did gather from your original posting that you hadn't actually read Dickens (my posting was largely aimed at those who had shyed away from him), but from your comment it sounds like you have read him but just don't care for his work.
	noggs.typepad.com /the_reading_experience/2004/03/on_charles_dick.html (1819 words)

	Dickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dickens wrote this work after a five month visit to America in 1842.
		Wildly popular with the American public, Dickens received a hero's welcome and for the first two months of his visit wrote glowing reports in letters home.
		However, the American press reacted negatively and vociferously to Dickens' views on international copyright law, and Dickens suffered a change of heart about Americans and American culture in general, which American Notes reflects.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/dickens/dickens.htm (159 words)

	Dickens, Charles -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles Dickens first attracted attention with the descriptive essays and tales originally written for newspapers, beginning in 1833, and collected as Sketches by “Boz”; (1836).
		On the strength of this volume Dickens contracted to write a historical novel in the tradition of Scott (eventually published as Barnaby Rudge in 1841).
		Like Dickens, he often wrote of the social evils of the time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108359?tocId=9108359 (690 words)

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