Dickens Fellowshipさんのイラストまとめ

BOTD - 30/01/1775 - Walter Savage Landor, poet, godfather to CDs fourth child Walter Landor Dickens, and the model for Lawrence Boythorn in BH. "Mr Boythorn is (between ourselves) a most exact portrait of Walter Savage Landor." To Mrs Richard Watson 06/05/1852

BOTD-25/01/1759-Robbie Burns -"we sang 'Auld Lang Syne'. When we came to 'Here's a hand, my trusty frere',we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would 'take a right gude Willie Waught', and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected." DC17

Executed OTD - 21/01/1793 - King Louis XV1. "The new Era began; the king was tried, doomed and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms." ATOTC Book 3 Chapter 4

Born OTD - 06/01/1837 - Charles Culliford Boz Dickens - the first child of CD and Catherine. "After a day and night of watching and anxiety, I was yesterday made - not a member of the Garrick Club; but a father." To Richard Bentley 07/01/1837

Died OTD - 10/12/1861 - Dr Thomas Southwood Smith, sanitary reformer. "It must be a great comfort and happiness to you to be instrumental in bringing about so much good. I am proud to be remembered by one who is pursuing such ends." Letter 15/12/1840

Like Captain Cuttle! https://t.co/ptS3QuiZsa

Looking forward to the first Zoom meeting organised by the Broadstairs Branch this evening. Good luck to all involved. The talk connects Messrs Spiers & Pond and the extra Christmas number of ATYR for 1866.

Died OTD - 28/08/1859 - James Henry Leigh Hunt - poet and recognisable model for Harold Skimpole in 'Bleak House'.
"As it has given you so much pain, I take it at its worst, and say I am deeply sorry, and that I feel I did wrong in doing it." Letter to Leigh Hunt November 1854

BOTD - 26/05/1795 - Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd. Close friend of CD who dedicated PP to him. Possible model of Traddles in DC. CD described Talfourd as "so amiable a man, so gentle, so sweet tempered, of such a noble simplicity." 'The Late Mr Justice Talfourd' - HW 25/03/1854

Born OTD - 02/05/1816 in London - Augustus Leopold Egg RA, artist friend of CD who painted him as Sir Charles Coldstream in the play 'Used Up' in 1848. The painting is in the collection of the @DickensMuseum