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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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Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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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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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Brian Sewell, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Dickens Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Pickwick papers, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, Victorian Art, William Powell Frith
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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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Tagged Alexander Welsh, Chales Dickens Mr. Micawber, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens William Dorrit, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Newgate Prison, Edmund Wilson, Edmund Wilson Dickens, George Cruikshank, John Dickens, Shakespeare, Shakespeare King Lear, William Heath, William James, William Powell Frith
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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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Tagged Casual Ward, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Daily Mail, Dickens David Copperfield, G.J. Saville Caricatures, George Cruikshank, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, Marshalsea Prison, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Dorrit
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