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Author : Michael Hardwick,Mollie Hardwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468920078
Author : David Nicholas Wilkinson,Emlyn Price
Publisher : Guerilla Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0955494338
From October 2009, Sky Arts will be screening Charles Dickens' England, presented and narrated by Derek Jacobi - a journey through the places, buildings, towns, cities and villages where Dickens lived or found inspiration. To coincide with the series, this 256 page book featuring 300 photographs and illustrations will be published, bringing together for the very first time all the of the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration for some of the most famous settings in literature.
Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475547
Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's characters with whom we are so familiar - orphan Oliver and cunning Fagin, snobbish Pip, spendthrift Mr Micawber, pompous Podsnap and humourless Gradgrind - grow out of his own observation. Here, Dickens and his great contemporaries - John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy - take us into the heart of what Elizabeth Barrett Browning called 'this live, throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires'. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to understand more about the world of our great novelist Charles Dickens.
Author : Tony Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:1018168643
Author : Mollie Hardwick,Michael Hardwick
Publisher : Sapere Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800556012
A topographical biography of Charles Dickens's England. Ideal for everyone interested in the places associated with the great Victorian novelist and his works. This book conducts the reader to every English scene and building connected by any significance with Dickens which is still to be seen today. Despite the numerous changes that have taken place since his death in 1870, many places Dickens knew personally and immortalized in his books still stand; and it is within the setting of these that the authors tell the story of his life - a biography in terms of place, showing how Dickens's keen observation and brilliant descriptive ability transmuted his memories of his homes, his schools, his lodgings, and the towns and villages he visited into the background of his novels and stories. Such was the enormous fame Dickens enjoyed in his lifetime, that any house he lived in, visited or wrote about was remembered for his sake. In Kent, his chosen county and cradle of his genius, the pride in him is strongest, the houses and scenes most abounding; but it is possible to follow him to many other parts of the country and to find something of him in unassuming hotels and seaside inns, lonely churches and stately homes, places that knew him and can help to bring him to life for us. Dickens's England is a fascinating topographical study concentrating on what is still to be seen, rather than what has disappeared, and offers both immediate interest and enduring value for fans of the great author.
Author : Mollie Hardwick
Publisher : J.M. Dent & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035160402
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781105116193
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Author : Tony Lynch
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013514305
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-22
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1973805286
A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on December 20, 1851; the second, December 25, 1852; and the third, December 24, 1853. Although the volumes were published in December, each was postdated the following year. Dickens dedicated the book to "My own dear children, whom I hope it may help, bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject". The history covered the period between 50 BC and 1689, ending with a chapter summarising events from then until the accession of Queen Victoria. A Child's History was included in the curricula of British School children well into the 20th century, with successive editions published from 1851 to World War II.
Author : Sirinya Pakditawan
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638775724
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In "Oliver Twist", Dickens presents the everyday existence of the lowest members of English society and realistically portrays the horrible conditions of the nineteenth century workhouses. Hence, in the story of Oliver Twist, Dickens uses past experiences from his childhood and targets the Poor Law of 1834 which renewed the importance of the workhouse as a means of relief for the poor. In fact, Dickens' age was a period of industrial development marked by the rise of the middle class. In the elections brought about by the accession of William IV in 1830, the Tories lost control of the government. Assumption of power by the Whigs opened the way to an era of accelerated progress. In this time period, children worked just as much, if not more, than some of the adults. After 1833, an increased amount of legislation was enacted to control the hours of labour and working conditions for children and women in manufacturing plants. The Poor Law of 1834 wanted to make the workhouse more of a deterrent to idleness as it was believed that people were poor because they were lazy and needed to be punished. So people in workhouses were deliberately treated harshly and the workhouses were similar to prisons. In the following, it will be analyzed how Dickens attacks the defects of existing institutions in his novel "Oliver Twist". Hence, it will be shown how Dickens creates a fictive world that was a mirror in which the truths of the real world were reflected. However, firstly, it is necessary to take a closer look at the historical background. Thus, the attitude of Victorian society towards the poor comes into view and with it the central issues of child labour, Poor Laws and workhouse conditions. Secondly, when regarding the central theme of
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398101708
Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074954300
Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439144800
A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:34905750
Author : Jon Sutherland
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848313927
For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being? For the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens' work, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few - John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to the great man's work. Excerpt: HANDS; Every Dickens novel has a master image. In Our Mutual Friend it is the river. In Bleak House it is the fog. In Little Dorrit, it is the prison. In Great Expectations it is the hand. We often know much more about the principals' hands in that novel than their faces. Who, when the name Magwitch is mentioned, does not think of those murderous 'large brown veinous hands'? Jaggers? One's nose twitches---scented soap (the lawyer, like Pontius Pilate, is forever washing his hands). Miss Havisham? Withered claws. So it goes on...
