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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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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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4. City Laureate
Jenny Hartley
in Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
‘City Laureate’ describes Charles Dickens as our first and best novelist of the city. London in the mid-19th century was the supreme modern urban space and Dickens its chronicler. Dickens ...
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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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