Dickens Fellowshipさんのイラストまとめ

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

On Bastille Day - The Bastille Prisoner by Phiz.
"Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke." AToTC - Book 2 chapter 21

Died OTD - 08/07/1882 - Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) - CDs principal illustrator 1836-60.

Congratulations to artist Stefano Paggi who has drawn a series of beautiful new illustrations of scenes from Great Expectations, including this one from chapter 37 of the inside of Wemmick's Castle at Walworth.
Visit Stefano's blog for more:
https:/ge-illustrations.blogspot.com

BOTD - 08/06/1829 - John Everett Millais - CD criticised 'Christ in the House of His Parents' (1850) - "a hideous wry-necked, blubbering, red-headed boy, in a bed-gown" - despite which the two became friends - Millais drawing 'CD on his Deathbed' (1870).

Died OTD 31/05/1837 - pantomime clown Joseph Grimaldi. CD edited 'Memoirs of Grimaldi' for Bentley. "I had not arrived at man's estate when Grimaldi left the stage, and that my recollections of his acting are - to my loss - but shadowy and imperfect." Letter March 1838

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

OTD-12/5/1820 Florence Nightingale was born. CD and Miss Burdett Coutts acquired a machine for drying the clothes of troops at Scutari hospital.
"I am delighted to hear of Miss Nightingale's communication to you...The closet will be, I really believe, invaluable." Letter 8/5/55

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

"I do not write resentfully or angrily: for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am; but I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back."
#MothersDay