Charles Dickens, born today in 1812: There was a traveller, and he set out upon a magic journey. He travelled a dark path until he came to a beautiful child. "What do you do here?" And the child said, "I am always at play. Come and play with me!" (link: https://t.co/JyOxEJXPP2

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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

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✨NEW YEAR'S GHOST✨
My most recent makeup I did for the end of the year 2020, inspired in the Christmas ghosts by Charles Dickens, this could be a fourth ghost

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**Stigma**: Kafka (UP), Margrave, Ana, Dickens, Thales, SchroBand

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"Deus sabe que não há por que nos envergonharmos de nossas lágrimas jamais, pois elas são a chuva que cai sobre a poeira da terra que nos cega, descendo sobre nossos corações endurecidos."
Charles Dickens, Grandes esperanças, pg. 234.
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Sketchbook, desenho, caneta e aquarela.

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Charles Dickens, preface to David Copperfield.

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In book 6 chapter 2 of "Life of 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!

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“Onoreró il Natale nel mio cuore, e cercheró di conservarmi in questo stato d'animo per tutto l'anno. Vivró nel passato, nel presente e nel futuro, e i tre spiriti saranno sempre presenti in me”
Charles Dickens, Canto di Natale


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As celebrated author Charles Dickens, it is my responsibility to welcome you to the month of December! Let's make it festive and weird, shall we?

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I was invited to a spa day by today. It consisted of me getting my face full of mud that tickled like the absolute dickens, only to be left eating cold chicken nuggets topless 'cos I couldn't wear my shirt. I also could not wear my glasses, 'cos of the facial mud.

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My new D&D character for the living world of Verum, Simp Dickens, the human illithari druid.

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September 19, 1867: English book illustrator Arthur Rackham is born.

In his lifetime, Rackham illustrated more than 60 books, ranging from Grimm's Fairy Tales to Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, and Edgar Allan Poe.

🎨 "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" 🐻🐻🐻

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

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By contrast, Catherine Macready Dickens, Kate, or Katey, was affectionately referred to as "Lucifer Box," because her temper flamed up quickly and warmly, like a tinderbox full of sulfurous lucifer matches, an inferior and volatile forerunner to the 1830s phosphorous match

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Sensibly, mostly named his children after family members and celebrity friends, but "Boz" also gave them fabulous nicknames typical of his fictional characters.

His eldest Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, or Charley, was dubbed "Flaster Floby" (corruption of Master Toby)

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"De haber mencionado la magia o las hadas a cualquiera de ellos, habrían sonreído con desdén; excepto, quizá, Dickens, que entonces era un hombre joven e imberbe"
-Neil Gaiman-

Preventa: Más allá del muro y otras aventuras.

https://t.co/p6riEEqlgI

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Recent Arrivals - Philip Larkin, Charles Dickens, Polar Exploration - https://t.co/siwJMnxoLw

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"The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing."

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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That’s ! Dickens first stayed at The Angel in 1835. Mr Pickwick and his manservant Sam stayed here on the trail of Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers. Image: Mr Pickwick on the Ice by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.

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Student Yuling Sung's spectral was one of the many pieces to featured in WHAT THE DICKENS, our exhibition with the and . Be sure to check her out for more (IG)!

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