The Dickens Societyさんのイラストまとめ

Well, Jo took the poll. Do you have a favorite illustration of him? https://t.co/td7O3AfEvH

In book 6 chapter 2 of "Life of #Dickens," Forster reproduces a number of character sketches by Phiz of Paul Dombey.

In his introduction to Dombey, Andrew Lang wrote: "Mr. Dombey looks like a collection of criminal butlers."

We'd read that!

In addition to the usual monthly illustrations for #Dickens' "Dombey and Son," Phiz made several character sketches including this utterly charming Little Paul held in Philadelphia at the @FreeLibrary.

https://t.co/Fd04HQzDkR

"The Poetical Young Gentleman" inspires annoyance: "The favourite attitude of the poetical young gentleman is lounging on a sofa with his eyes fixed upon the ceiling, or sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, staring with very round eyes at the opposite wall" 😒

Some form of logic may have supported using seánces and other otherworldly means to contact the Ghost of Charles Dickens 👻 in the Age of Spiritualism

After all, if the ghosts of lawyers can return on Christmas Eve to remonstrate, why not famous authors to finish the story?

Poe was the unfortunate subject of an 1848 doggerel rhyme by James Russell Lowell that pointed out the similarities between #Dickens's novel and the poem: “Here comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, / Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge.” Quite unfair!

Such was Dickens's love of the raven that he immortalized him as "Grip the Raven" in "Barnaby Rudge" (1841) who spouts encouraging and still-relevant sentiments such as "Never say die!" and "Keep up your spirits!"

He wrote several plays at the beginning of his literary career, "The Strange Gentleman" (1836) and the comic opera "The Village Coquettes" (1836). Both were staged, but neither turned out to be a great success

It was an accident of fate that Charles #Dickens became a novelist rather than an actor. Famously, he missed an 1832 Covent Garden audition due to a head cold. But, over the years, his love of #theatre inspired a few plays of his own and led him to act on multiple occasions

Francis Jeffrey Dickens, or Frank, became "Chickenstalker," a nickname probably inspired by Mrs. Chickenstalker in #Dickens's Christmas story "The Chimes" (1844)