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Jacob’s Island was one of the most notorious slums of the Victorian era. Dickens describes the area in Oliver Twist, where Bill Sikes meets his doom at the end of a rope.
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Captain Cuttle's Hook
The etching and printing process used in nineteenth-century publishing could be confusing as evidenced by these two illustrations of Captain Cuttle from Dickens' Dombey and Son.
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Mapping Dickens: Fleet Prison
In Dickens’ day the Fleet was mostly associated with debtors. The prison closed in 1842 and was demolished four years later. Samuel Pickwick was imprisoned here.
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‘THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL’ has returned with a new Christmas commercial for Walmart.
Starring Walton Goggins as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Mapping Dickens: Seven Dials
District centered on the convergence of seven streets near St. Giles. By Dickens' time it had become a notorious London slum. Dickens article, Seven Dials was originally published in September 1835.
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Charles Dickens Witnesses a Hanging
November 13, 1849
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I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger Lane this morning...I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful...could be imagined by no man.
Wellerisms
Celebrating the linguistic pearls of Sam Weller and his father in The Pickwick Papers
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The hypocritical Seth Pecksniff:
“Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there.”
—Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
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Any Uriah Heep fans out there?
Not Led Zeppelin, Not Deep Purple: The British Rock Band That Time Forgot Pioneered Heavy Metal
…and was named for a Dickens character.
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The Mystery of Ellen Ternan
Forget who killed Edwin Drood. Dickens scholars and enthusiasts have been trying to solve Dickens’ last and greatest mystery since his death in 1870: What exactly was his relationship with Ellen Lawless Ternan?
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Charles Dickens Visits Niagara Falls 1842
"Whenever I think of Niagara, I shall think of its beauty"
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Edwin Drood - The Final Page
On June 8, 1870, Charles Dickens worked later than usual, hoping to finish Chapter 22 of his latest novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He suffered a stroke that evening and died the following day.
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Historian David McCullough on seeing the manuscript of A Christmas Carol written in Dickens’ own hand at the Morgan Library: "It's going to send a chill right up your spine"
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I was pleased to serve as a consultant for this new WPSU/PBS program exploring Charles Dickens' 1842 travels through Pennsylvania. The program also features my Dickens in America 1842 map.
“Un-locked: Charles Dickens and the Pennsylvania Canals”
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Charles Dickens in America: Newspaper Accounts
Dickens 1842 trip to America was heralded in newspapers in every city he visited.
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Meet Jerry Cruncher…Resurrection Man
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Jerry is one of more than 2,000 characters featured in The Characters of Charles Dickens: amzn.to/46nGTHT
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A Tale of Two Cities
The stories behind the story.
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