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ze-reviewer-of-odd-volumes: Artwork by Frank Reynolds for David...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:26:53 -0400

Artwork by Frank Reynolds for David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. David falls for Dora Spenlow.

todayinhistory: June 9th 1870: Charles Dickens diesOn this day...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:16:37 -0400

June 9th 1870: Charles Dickens dies

On this day in 1870, the English writer Charles Dickens passed away aged 58 following a stroke. Dickens wrote some popular and famous works such as Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. He died leaving his final novel (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) unfinished, leaving the identity of the story’s murderer unknown. Due to his status as a literary giant of his age, Dickens was buried in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey rather than the “unostentatious” service he desired. His work is still celebrated and widely read today.

“He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”
- Epitaph for Charles Dickens

sixinchesdeepinmud: “Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:06:09 -0400

sixinchesdeepinmud:

“Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people’s opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. Even her propriety could not dispute that there was impropriety in the world; but Mrs General’s way of getting rid of it was to put it out of sight, and make believe that there was no such thing. This was another of her ways of forming a mind—to cram all articles of difficulty into cupboards, lock them up, and say they had no existence. It was the easiest way, and, beyond all comparison,
the properest.”

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book Two, Ch. # 2, Mrs. General

lubetzky: thewrongcranberry: Horrible Histories - Charles...

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:18:00 -0400

lubetzky:

thewrongcranberry:

Horrible Histories - Charles Dicken’s Life - Lyrics

Whoo!

I lived a happy life till I was ten years old.
When debt landed Dad in prison and our country house was sold
lodged with a lady in her London flat; so cold.
Worked at a boot polish factory labelling jars, quite dull, all told
Goodness only knows,
I was a miserable so-oh-oul!

For a time I went to school, but then I found a job
as a clerk to a lawyer, oh, it made my poor head throb.
I failed to be an actor, despite my loud gob.
Ended up reporting speeches of the Parliamentary mob.
Then as everybody knows,
I started writing pro-oh-ose!

Put my life into my books,
Friends and enemies and crooks,
Legal bosses, up they crop
in the Old Curiosity Shop.
Fagin in Oliver Twist?
A factory pal – you get the gist.
And although my memory’s quite foggy
Got Scrooge from the grave of Ebenezer Sroo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oggie!

My first book was an overnight sensation
but I drove myself too hard to enjoy the adulation.
Despite my wealth, my family begged for money.
I wrote of it in Chuzzlewit, which people said was funny.
Didn’t sell like books before,
My family still asked for mo-oh-ore!

Little Dorrit is a tale
about my dad in debtors’ jail.
While Hard Times tells my life,
‘bout when I tried to leave my wife.
Little Nell’s death was my poor,
dear, departed sister-in-law.
And David Copperfield working in a factory;
I must confess that that was really me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e!

In my life, felt shame ‘bout poverty in childhood.
Wrote about sadness, suffering and fears.
Also wrote about people with funny names;
Bumble, Smallweed, Scrooge, Uriah Heep and Wackford Squeers.

Whilst writing Edwin Drood,
a train crash didn’t help my mood.
Still I drove myself on
with readings far across the pond.
Died before I wrote Drood’s end,
this sort of thing drove me round the bend.
So Dickens take a, Dickens take a bow
and heaven knows I’m miserable no-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-w!

A Smiths-ian song about Charles Dickens.

Outstanding.

:D :D :D

Just turned in my final college paper… now I’ve got plenty of free time to update...

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:49:41 -0400

Just turned in my final college paper… now I’ve got plenty of free time to ~~update Tumblr~~ search for jobs!

dustjacketlust: Jim Tierney’s oldschool design for A Tale of...

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:33:08 -0400

dustjacketlust:

Jim Tierney’s oldschool design for A Tale of Two Cities.

Just ordered The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:09:36 -0400

Just ordered The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater, and am excited to read it! I haven’t bought a new Dickens-related book in a few months, and there are many new ones.

Seattle Pi Book Review

Sidenote: I work at my college’s library. Every year, the bosses purchase a new book for each graduating student worker to be put into the collection. The choices are based on the student’s interests/hobbies, and dedicated in their name. They selected this book for me — I guess word has gotten around!

Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence?

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:00:22 -0400

Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence?:

A new study claims that Dickens and ‘the worst writer in history’ [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] are indistinguishable. That’s just plain silly.

Charles Dickens… or the world's worst writer? Blind reading test found 48% couldn't tell difference between literature great and ridiculed novelist

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:30:22 -0400

Charles Dickens… or the world's worst writer? Blind reading test found 48% couldn't tell difference between literature great and ridiculed novelist:

A new study has found that people really are none the wiser about whether they’re reading a Charles Dickens masterpiece or one of the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, billed as ‘the worst writer in history

Dickens out, Bulwer-Lytton in Dear followers, As of today,...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:43:00 -0400

Dickens out, Bulwer-Lytton in

Dear followers,

As of today, microBoz will be changing from an appreciation blog for Charles Dickens to one for the inimitable Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Better start catching up on Bulwer-Lytton’s works!

Cheers,

‘Accept your copy, with kind regards, from your...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:50:41 -0400

‘Accept your copy, with kind regards, from your affectionate friend Charles Dickens’: Letter reveals how author gave copies of his first novel to friends

A letter written by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens documenting his first-ever novel is expected to fetch £400 when it goes up for auction. The beautifully written note accompanied the first-ever bound copy of Dickens’ first novel, the Pickwick Papers. Dated Monday evening, December 11 1837, the letter is written to his friend and later biographer John Forster, offering him a copy of the literature.

"When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:39:00 -0400

“

When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying ‘Tom, I wonder’—upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, ‘Louisa, never wonder!’

Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.

”

- Hard Times, by Charles Dickens

"Love… is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory,..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:34:24 -0400

“Love… is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.”

- Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens

'Charles Dickens is just as old as William Shakespeare!' What top A-level students tell university tutors

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:24:21 -0500

'Charles Dickens is just as old as William Shakespeare!' What top A-level students tell university tutors:

Well, this is comforting.

Top English students reach university believing Charles Dickens is ‘just as old’ as William Shakespeare, an academic has warned.

Even those with three As at A-level including English can’t put books in historical context, according to Professor Helen Fulton, head of English and related literature at the University of York.

They fear being stretched, stick to easy works studied in sixth form and choose short or computer-based texts over those with plot, character and clear narrative structure, she said.

theparisreview: “It was one of those March days when the sun...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:35:06 -0500

theparisreview:

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens

Photography Credit Tyler Knott Gregson.

Researching reviews of Jane Eyre from the 1840s for a paper. It kinda made my day when one reviewer...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:20:00 -0500

Researching reviews of Jane Eyre from the 1840s for a paper. It kinda made my day when one reviewer referred to Lowood school as “Dothegirls Hall.”

Photo

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:17:45 -0500

objectifiedimagez: Charles Dickens ~ Vintage Post Card

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:17:20 -0500

objectifiedimagez:

Charles Dickens ~ Vintage Post Card

Happy 201st birthday, Mr. Dickens! Please, sir, have some more...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:46:00 -0500

Happy 201st birthday, Mr. Dickens!

Please, sir, have some more cake. (apologies for my atrocious lack of Photoshop skills)

Stumbled upon this while searching for pictures for a class...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:52:00 -0500

Stumbled upon this while searching for pictures for a class project. Couldn’t resist sharing (not to mention adding it into my otherwise academic presentation).

source: http://theotherausten.tumblr.com/