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With Dickens and Co. came 6 saddle-horses, an armed guard, and 22 guides, because the wintry weather rendered the climb extremely dangerous.
Initially, the women were put in two litters (chairs with poles) and carried up the icy slope.
"The Goblins Who Stole The Sexton" was a popular embedded story in #Dickens' Pickwick Papers. It was frequently illustrated. Which version do you prefer?
W. R. Hill
Joseph Grego
Thomas Nast
or Phiz's original
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You can be a different person after the pandemic.
Why not try Dick Datchery?
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Her grief at #Dickens's sudden death in 1870 was extreme and long-lasting, with Mamie steadily refusing to ever again hear public readings of her father's works
For Dickens, walking appears to have allowed him the time and space to process emotion and think. Claire Tomalin observes that Dickens night walked during his ill-fated attachment to Maria Beadnell, sometimes walking for two hours so that he could pass by her house (p.45).
When Silas Wegg is asked by Mr Venus in "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), ‘My tea is drawing, and my muffin is on the hob, Mr Wegg; will you partake?’ Wegg agrees, "It being one of Mr Wegg’s guiding rules in life always to partake."
His appetite for selfish gain is evident!
Scenes of #tea drinking in Charles #Dickens's fiction often provide clues as to the moral integrity of characters.
In particular, how individuals use tea-time can be extremely revealing 🫖
Concluding, Dickens begs Thompson, "Don't mention this unhappy attachment. I am very wretched, and think of leaving my home. My wife makes me miserable, and when I hear the voices of my Infant Children, I burst into tears."
Charlotte Brontë herself wrote on 13 September 1849 to W.S. Williams, "I have read "David Copperfield"; it seems to be very good - admirable in some parts. You said it had affinity to "Jane Eyre": it has - now and then"