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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
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EXQUISITE SECRET SUFFERING
The youth of Charles Dickens was usually spent alone, and he was constantly unhappy. The financial failings of his father, who wound up in debtor’s prison forced Charles to work, at the age of twelve, in a shoe blacking factory. … Continue reading
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Although Dickens based William Dorrit as well as Mr. Micawber, on some of the superficial mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of his father, the fundamental humiliation of Dorrit, his shame and fears , helplessness and concealments, are in all likelihood Dicken’s own. … Continue reading
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TILL DEBT DO US PART
Abandoned children and orphans are everywhere in the work of Charles Dickens, a reflection of the the child abuse and exploitation he saw in the pre-Victorian and Victorian England his work. His own, and the general sense abandonment and bertrayal … Continue reading
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