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.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

In October 2007, Watterson wrote a review of Schulz and Peanuts, a biography of Charles Schulz, in The Wall Street Journal.

Charles Erdman ( 1866 – 1960 ) advocated apostolic authorship and wrote that only the Apostle John fits the image of the author derived from the text.

" The actress Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote in Harper's Weekly that " a constantly increasing body of cultured, artistic people are beginning to regard the young English buffoon, Charles Chaplin, as an extraordinary artist, as well as a comic genius.

However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.

Charles won a national competition, run by The Guardian newspaper, for a poem he wrote when he was 12-years-old.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

In 1997, he and Russell wrote Charles ' Red Dwarf character's book The Log, in which Lister decides to leave a log detailing mankind's greatest achievements.

In 2000, Charles wrote his first autobiography about his experiences growing up in Liverpool, titled No Irish, No Niggers.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

Beatty later wrote to his wife about Charles, we lived together, played together, rode together, fought together.

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother ( who was also his godmother ), Lady Brabourne, about his interest.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

He was imprisoned in Lancaster for five months, during which he wrote to the king offering advice on governance: Charles should refrain from war and domestic religious persecution, and discourage oath-taking, plays, and maypole games.

Charles de Gaulle described the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French constitution, stating the head of state should embody " the spirit of the nation " for the nation itself and the world: une certaine idée de la France ( a certain idea about France ).

Brown., in which Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that " only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests are as much a man's own ... as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.

* Pierre Efratas wrote a sequel called Le Destin d ' Ivanhoe ( 2003 ), published by Éditions Charles Corlet.