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2 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
1 day ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- Charles Dickens
- 1860
4 days ago · Mary Dickens died in 1896 at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, and is buried beside her sister Kate Perugini in Sevenoaks. She was buried on the same day as her eldest brother Charles Dickens Jr.
Jun 30, 2024 · The museum recently purchased a collection of 120 letters written by Dickens's sister-in-law to journalist Charles Kent after Dickens's death. A few of the letters are going on display, while curator Emma Harper works on transcribing the collection as a whole.
Apr 1, 2021 · Dickens Fellowship share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens. Subscribe to a network branch with events, news, and The Dickensian.
Jul 5, 2024 · Summary: Charles Dickens's early life experiences significantly influenced his writing. His family’s financial struggles and his time working in a blacking factory are reflected in his...
Charles Dickens — ‘It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the wo...
