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.

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 ).

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

Reynolds was also responsible for The Mysteries of London which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links can be made with established readings of the work of Dickens and others.

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.

He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by Charles Dickens.

Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.

Bradbury and Evans capitalised on newly evolving mass printing technologies and also were the publishers for Charles Dickens and Thackeray.

This group became known as " The Punch Brotherhood ", which also included Charles Dickens who joined Bradbury and Evans after leaving Chapman and Hall in 1843.

Punch authors and artists also contributed to another Bradbury and Evans literary magazine called Once A Week ( est. 1859 ), created in response to Dickens ' departure from Household Words.

* Richard Doyle ( who also illustrated Charles Dickens ' Christmas books )

Great novelists like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens also wrote some short stories.

Dickens ' Carol was one of the greatest influences in rejuvenating the old Christmas traditions of England, but, while it brings to the reader images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also brings strong and unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness and death.

He was also inspired by Grip, the raven in Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty by Charles Dickens.

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

Dickens Alley, also well known in the region, is held during the first weekend in December.

Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and novels such as Robbery under Arms and For the Term of his Natural Life ; an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte.

She also played Miss Murgatroyd in the Miss Marple adaptation, A Murder is Announced, Betsy Prig in a star-studded adaptation of Dickens ' Martin Chuzzlewit and Lady Fox-Custard in Simon and the Witch.

The sampler of the book also includes him meeting an astute gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor called Charlie Dickens.

He has also written extensively about Charles Dickens, whom he has played in a one-man show, The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd, in the film Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale, and on television several times including An Audience with Charles Dickens ( BBC, 1996 ) and in " The Unquiet Dead ", a 2005 episode of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

The novel was seen by some to contain attacks on America, although Dickens himself saw it as satire, similar in spirit to his " attacks " on the people and institutions of England in novels such as Oliver Twist.

In a fund-raising speech on 5 October 1843 at the Manchester Athenæum ( a charitable institution serving the poor ), Dickens urged workers and employers to join together to combat ignorance with educational reform, and realized in the days following that the most effective way to reach the broadest segment of the population with his social concerns about poverty and injustice was to write a deeply-felt Christmas narrative rather than polemical pamphlets and essays.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

* December 2 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Ponzi did not invent the scheme ( for example, Charles Dickens ' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewitt and 1857 novel Little Dorrit each described such a scheme ), but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

Until his death in 2010, Clint Formby, Marshall's nephew, a Dickens County native, and the owner of KPAN AM & FM radio in Hereford, hosted the longest running one-person radio broadcast in the United States.

Dickens is a city in and the county seat of Dickens County, Texas, United States.

Spur is a city in Dickens County, Texas, United States.

In 1867, Whittier asked James Thomas Fields to get him a ticket to a reading by Charles Dickens during the British author's visit to the United States.

The effect is also used at the Dickens World attraction at Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom.

The Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library features one of the world ’ s most renowned Charles Dickens collections — featuring first editions, personal letters, and Dickens ’ s stuffed pet raven, Grip — as well as the largest Beatrix Potter collection outside of the United Kingdom.

His role in the Romanian context was likened to those of Honoré de Balzac in France, Charles Dickens in the United Kingdom, and Nikolai Gogol in the Russian Empire.

The book formed the basis for Dickens in America ( 2005 ), an authored documentary series by Miriam Margolyes in which Margolyes followed Dickens ' journey through the United States, visiting many of the places mentioned by the author in his book.

Other famous guests to visit the Golden Lamb include Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Webster, Bill McIntire, Thomas Corwin, Clement Vallandigham, Cordell Hull ( who went to school in Lebanon ), Robert A. Taft, Dewitt Clinton, and Lord Stanley, who later became prime minister of the United Kingdom.

In the 1970s he played, to great acclaim, the role of Charles Dickens in the miniseries Dickens of London which was presented in the United States as a thirteen part series on Masterpiece Theatre.

During a trip to the United States, in contrast with the earlier views of Charles Dickens and others, he found " the well-bred American is generally pleasanter than a well-bred Englishman ....

Famous authors such as Charles Dickens came to the United States to show their support for international copyright.