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.
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!
A new study claims that Dickens and ‘the worst writer in history’ [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] are indistinguishable. That’s just plain silly.
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, 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,
L
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 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.
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.”
Charles Dickens ~ Vintage Post Card
Happy 201st birthday, Mr. Dickens!
Please, sir, have some more cake. (apologies for my atrocious lack of Photoshop skills)
Arthur Clennam calling on Little Dorrit and her father at The Marshalsea.
Piango solo a vedere l’immagine.
(Source: anawfullotoftigerssir)
Good to know we’re honoring the great author in a respectful way… *sighs*
The first statue of Charles Dickens will be unveiled in the city of his birthplace in June - defying wishes in his will for one not to be created.
So I may have purchased this for myself today.
No regrets.
(Also that site is approximately 90% Dr. Who. I guess a Tardis just translates naturally into an iPhone).
Wish this case was available for my phone!
