A splendidly Dickensian view of the Cock and Magpie public house at 88 Drury Lane looking southwards towards the steeple of St Mary-le-Strand, by John Wykeham Archer (1840)

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On a scale of characters, how do you feel today?

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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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science, powers and heavenly butts, that's what you need to rule the world - with OC Vicki Dickens

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How are you getting on with your 2021 resolutions and writing goals? in 1840, Dickens writes, in a letter to John Forster, "I am thinking awfully, but not writing, as I intend (Please God) to start tomorrow".

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“What greater gift than the love of a cat?”

- Charles Dickens

original artwork by Erisiar

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Uriah Heep created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield is a villain of the worst kind, a snivelling sycophantic creep, noted for his cloying “umbleness” & insincerity. Motivated by greed, he schemes & manipulates, to gain control of the Wickfield fortune.

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Smoking Bishop is a type of mulled wine, punch or wassail. It was especially popular in Victorian England at Christmas time and it is mentioned in Dickens' story A Christmas Carol.

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Today, marks the birthday of Charles Culliford 'Boz' eldest son of Charles & Catherine Dickens and older brother to the artist Kate Perugini. Find out more about the Dickens children in my of Charley was born in 1837.

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in 1841, Dickens finishes the 38th number (chapters 69-70) of The Old Curiosity Shop. He writes, "I am slowly murdering that poor child. It wrings my heart. Yet it must be."

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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

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I guess we can all use some hope for this year. And some Emily Dickenson poetry. Stay safe, stay healthy! And many thanks to for providing a great stock image that inspired me to paint my first water colour in 2021. 😊

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

https://t.co/Fd04HQzDkR

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Otro clásico de estas fechas: 'Cuento de Navidad' de Charles

Guión de dibujos de
Portada de
n° 90
https://t.co/GgXYyqM1gc vía

Y la edición para México, Colombia y Venezuela
n° 40.

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A Christmas Carol, 1914 de Harold M. Shaw la clásica historia de Charles Dickens de tres espíritus navideños con Ebenezer Scroonge, es una pelicula muda, pero es de las primeras adaptaciones del muy afamado libro.

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