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2 days ago · Catherine Hogarth Dickens by Samuel Laurence (1838). She met the author in 1834, and they became engaged the following year before marrying in April 1836. In 1832, at the age of 20, Dickens was energetic and increasingly self-confident.
3 days ago · Dickens and Our Mutual Friend. Inspiration for Our Mutual Friend possibly came from Richard Henry Horne 's essay "Dust; or Ugliness Redeemed", published in Household Words in 1850, which contains a number of situations and characters that are found in the novel.
5 days ago · Dr Kathryne Ford is a researcher in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, where she completed her PhD. Prior to moving to Australia, Kathryne studied English at the University of Memphis.
3 days ago · Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
2 days ago · Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis]; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian noblewoman born into the Medici family.
3 days ago · The Tudor Martyrs – Gareth Russell. The Victorians were a lavishly sentimental bunch. They loved the extremity of emotion and they had none of our cultural hang-ups about projecting their standards onto the study of history. Indeed, quite the opposite: in Victoria's Britain, the nation's sense of their country's superiority was as lively as ...
2 days ago · A: “The Dickens House” is another name for the Dickens Museum, located at 48 Doughty Street in London, where Charles Dickens lived with his wife Catherine from 1837 to 1839. He became a ...
