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Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Jenny Hartley
Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Charles Dickens: A Very ...
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3. Character and plot
Jenny Hartley
in Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Characters are what Charles Dickens is famous for. They crowd and flock through his novels, roughly 2,000 named characters, and multitudes more unnamed. The original illustrations by George ...
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6. Dickensian
Jenny Hartley
in Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Charles Dickens became an adjective in his own lifetime. By the 1850s, he was ‘Dickenesque’ and ‘Dickensy’; ‘Dickensian’ came in the decade after his death. Contradictions beset the many ...
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2. Public and private
Jenny Hartley
in Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in February 1812. ‘Public and private’ describes his early childhood, his first jobs, and his move into writing. His father’s imprisonment for debt ...
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