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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.
* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.
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 provides
Since 2002, Charles has been a DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music, presenting The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, where he plays a diverse range of funk and soul music, from classic tracks to the latest releases, and provides publicity for new bands.
In his 1859 The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin recalls seeing coloured drawings of zebra-donkey hybrids, and mentions " Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chesnut mare and male quagga ..." Darwin mentioned this particular hybrid again in 1868 in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and provides a citation to the journal in which Lord Morton first described the breeding.
Charles Winchester ( David Ogden Stiers ) provides him with the sheet music for Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, tells him Wittgenstein's story, and encourages him not to abandon his musical gift.
However, positioned immediately before the large portrait of King Charles I and his family it provides further circumstantial evidence that Lord Burlington may have received an earlier secret Garter from the Stuart Kings in exile ( in this painting King Charles I can be seen wearing the blue sash of the Garter with a " Lesser " George attached ).
He explicitly locates his theory within Charles Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, citing the key tenets of Darwin's population theory, which postulates that individual variation within species provides the basis for the natural selection that eventually leads to the evolution of new species.
Patterson's achievements as Presiding Bishop include the establishment of the Charles Harrison Mason Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia ; the C. H. Mason System of Bible Colleges ; the J. O. Patterson Fine Arts Department ; the Historical Museum and Fine Arts Center and organizer of the Charles Harrison Mason Foundation and the Presiding Bishop's Benefit Fund which provides scholarships to deserving youth.
* Frank Welker provides the voice for Charles, Michael's pet bulldog who menaces both Bugs and Daffy when they were in Michael's house.
Named after and officially opened by Charles, Prince of Wales in 1984, Prince of Wales Hospital now provides approximately 1, 360 hospital beds and 24 hours accident and emergency service with almost 4, 000 staff.
* 1922 – Publication of John Charles Phillips's A Natural History of the Ducks, which provides maps of the known breeding and wintering distributions of ducks throughout the world
Other internal features include ; the Microsoft Auditorium on the ground floor, the " Living Room " on the third floor ( designed as a space for patrons to read ), the Charles Simonyi Mixing Chamber ( a version of a reference desk that provides interdisciplinary staff help for patrons who want to have questions answered or do research ), and the Betty Jane Narver Reading Room on level 10 ( with views of Elliott Bay ).
It is also provides the first well-documented performance of a play in Ireland: Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy staged it at Dublin Castle in 1601.
Based on the principles of stereopsis, described by Sir Charles Wheatstone in the 1830s, stereoscopic technology provides a different image to the viewer's left and right eyes.
Karen, hoping to find Charles, joins Peter and provides additional funding for the trip.
According to Charles Isherwood, Loman is the play's dominant character because " It is his losing battle against spiritual and economic defeat that provides the narrative spine of the play.
The Charles Village Community Benefits District Management Authority ( CVCBDMA ) is a public entity that provides services within the CVCBD.
This technology provides an indexical sign of heat ( adopting the classification of Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839-1914 ), an indexical sign by actual connection between the signifier and the signified ).
Skuratovsky provides evidence that Charles Joly, a son of Maurice Joly ( on whose writings the Protocols are based ), visited Saint Petersburg in 1902 and that Golovinsky and Charles Joly worked together at Le Figaro in Paris.
Charles Widmore makes contact with Locke, provides him with the alias " Jeremy Bentham ", and assigns Matthew Abaddon as his assistant to find the survivors that left the island, also known as the Oceanic Six.

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