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For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;
They do not escape the pitfall into which Charles Dickens pictured Mrs. Jellyby as falling.
Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.
* 1854 Charles Dickens ' Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.
It became the expectation rather than the exception that those in the public eye should write about themselves not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.
Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J. D.
In a twist on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the " kindest and loveliest " man in England.
One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).
as some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Charles Dickens ' " Christmas Books ", and Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.
* 1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
Charles Dickens makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, and there is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea.
In 2009 he also wrote a book, Drood, based on Charles Dickens ' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).
Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.
* 1812 Charles Dickens, English novelist ( d. 1870 )
* 1978 Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.
He wrote in the conclusion to his 1940 essay on Charles Dickens,
The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 61 ).
Alongside the earlier work of Edwin Chadwick, they are also regarded as a decisive influence on the thinking of Charles Dickens.
A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.
Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.
In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

Charles and used
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 1924 ) used symphonic techniques to produce a more concise and unified structure.
The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.
" Newspaper writers of the time used other nicknames for the club, including " Somersets " ( for owner Charles Somers ), " Plymouth Rocks ," " Beaneaters ," the " Collinsites " ( for manager Jimmy Collins )", and " Pilgrims.
By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.
The accession of Charles I ( 1625 1649 ) brought about a complete change in the religious scene in that the new king used his supremacy over the established, state Church " to promote his own idiosyncratic style of sacramental Kingship " which was " a very weird aberration from the first hundred years of the early reformed Church of England ".
In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".
It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used " Santiago " (" St. James " in Spanish ) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce.
Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.
Nicole Oresme, a French cleric and friend of the dauphin ( later to become King Charles V ) of the 14th Century, used constructions similar to Cartesian coordinates well before the time of Descartes and Fermat.
Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles ' father, Doctor Brian Xavier.
Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.
Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.
It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick ( 1851 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague.
The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.
Left-wing revivalists like Charles Seeger and Lawrence Gellert interpreted folk music as a grass-roots cultural form that came from the people and was written for the people such that it could be used in ' people's ' struggles for social and political rights.
At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.
Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.
Depending on whether total passengers, flights or cargo traffic are used as a measure, it ranks first, second or third in Europe alongside London Heathrow Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Charles Bray had become rich as a ribbon manufacturer and had used his wealth in building schools and other philanthropic causes.
Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.
Replacement of the hard-to-implement decimal system ( used in Charles Babbage's earlier design ) by the simpler binary system meant that Zuse's machines were easier to build and potentially more reliable, given the technologies available at that time.

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