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 ).

The New York Times published an enthusiastic review in 1863 noting that the author brought the " old Christmas … of bygone centuries and remote manor houses, into the living rooms of the poor of today " while the North American Review believed Dickens ’ s " fellow feeling with the race is his genius "; and John Greenleaf Whittier thought the book charming, " inwardly and outwardly ".

Although Charles Dickens is believed to have used the phrase before Thomas Carlyle, the English practice of binding documents and official papers with red tape was popularized in Carlyle's writings, protesting against official inertia with expressions like " Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence ".

" Although it is documented Dickens encountered a wealthy recluse called Elizabeth Parker on whom it is widely believed he based the character, whilst staying in Newport, Shropshire at the aptly named Havisham Court.

* John Elwes ( aka " Elwes the Miser "), was a noted British eccentric and miser, believed to be the inspiration for the character of " Ebenezer Scrooge " in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol.

Dickens believed that the drawings that illustrated his fiction were valuable, despite some critics urging him not to use them.

The hospital's founder, Andrew Reed, had a record as a practical philanthropist, having previously set up four other charities, and Charles Dickens, the celebrated author, was one of the first high profile figures to show his support by helping Reed raise funds for it.

In his essay, entitled " The Noble Savage ", Dickens expressed repugnance for Indians and their way of life in no uncertain terms, recommending that they ought to be " civilized out of existence ".

Though Alexandre Dumas writes in paradoxically positive terms about him in The Three Musketeers, on the other hand, the English novelist and historian Charles Dickens makes no effort to hide his total rejection of the Duke in his book A Child ’ s History of England.

In the 19th century, writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and notably William Barnes, tried to introduce terms like birdlore for ornithology and bendsome for flexible.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

" Dickens used it to attack the chancery court system as being near totally worthless, as any " honourable man among its practitioners " says, " Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

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.

Writers like Dickens and Tolstoy, painters like Turner, and musicians like Brahms were not radicals or " Bohemians ", but were instead valued members of society who produced art that added to society, even when critiquing its less desirable aspects.

Dickens asks, in effect, for people to recognise the plight of those whom the Industrial Revolution has displaced and driven into poverty, and the obligation of society to provide for them humanely.

As a young man he had a wide familiarity with dramatic and literary society, meeting many writers, including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope, and this background helped to obtain for him a large legal practice, particularly in criminal cases.

In 1852 the society widened its activities from music by arranging theatrical performances, including Charles Dickens ' company and an appearance by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dickens returned in 1858 and during that year the society was able to pay off the mortgage on the hall.

Like Charles Dickens he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focussed more on a declining rural society.

References to Dickens and the society wherein he lived are also implied in the personalities of the Piper's Children and in the Denizens ' clothes.

Previous members and visitors to the society include founding member John Wilkes, Charles Dickens, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Daniel O ' Connell, and many others throughout its 250 year history.

Her character represented Dickens ' view that person, however tainted by society, could still retain a sense of good.

The agitation preceding and following the first Reform Act ( which Dickens observed at first hand as a shorthand Parliamentary reporter ) made many people consider fundamental issues of society and politics.

With a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did.

George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature.

When word of Charles Dickens's death reached Bret Harte in July 1870, he immediately sent a dispatch across the bay to San Francisco to hold back the forthcoming publication of his Overland Monthly for twenty-four hours, so that he could compose the poetic tribute, " Dickens in Camp ".

Marmeladov could be seen as a Russian equivalent of the character of Micawber in Charles Dickens ' novel, David Copperfield.

Long interested in the poor from her reading of Dickens and inspired by her mother's kindness to the Cedarville poor, she decided to become a doctor so that she could live and work among the poor.

In the 1980s the museum was moved further west to the Guildhall so that Eastgate House could become the Charles Dickens Centre.

A comparison to Dickens ' Nicholas Nickleby could be drawn where the energy and bravura in story telling is countered by weaker thematic drive and lesser plot cohesion especially compared to both authors ' later works.

As was depicted by Charles Dickens, a workhouse could resemble a reformatory and house children, either with families or alone, or a penal labour regime to give the poor work at manual labour and subject them to physical punishment.

Dickens, by this time, had become an international celebrity, but owing to the lack of an international copyright law, bootleg copies of his works were freely available in North America and he could not abide losing money.

Dickens ' London and in particular 48 Doughty street where Dickens lived from 1837 – 39, reaped many of his leisure hours and he could quote at random from Dickens ' works with fluent ease.

In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens examines the inner soul, and shares with us how people are driven to the valley of human emotions, where desperation and anger reign, and what could happen afterwards if we let these emotions build up inside.

" Dickens then developed this in Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1843-4 ) published two years before the appearance of Sweeney Todd in The String of Pearls ( 1846-7 ), with a character called Tom Pinch, who is grateful that his own " evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many country legends as doing a lively retail business in the metropolis ".

At age 18, Copperfield enrolled at Fordham University and was cast in the lead role of the Chicago-based musical The Magic Man ( written by Barbara D ' Amato and directed by Holland, MI's John Tamimi ) three weeks into his freshman year, adopting his new stage name " David Copperfield " from the famous Charles Dickens novel.

Dickens of a life they lead, those women.

This provides an explanation of persistent evidence of consistent wage differentials across industries ( e. g. Slichter 1950 ; Dickens and Katz 1986 ; Krueger and Summers 1988 ): if firms must pay high wages to some groups of workers – perhaps because they are in short supply or for other efficiency-wage reasons such as shirking – then demands for fairness will lead to a compression of the pay scale, and wages for other groups within the firm will be higher than in other industries or firms.

In Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities, the Defarges help lead the assault on the Bastille, during the second book.

* Ebenezer Scrooge – lead character of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Extreme Noise Terror continued to tour throughout 1993 and 1994, and underwent further line-up changes ; drummer Dickens left to join DIRT and was replaced by former member Pig Killer, Lee Barrett ( founder of Candlelight Records and also member of Disgust ) took over on bass, and Ali Firouzbakht joined on lead guitar.

This was The Only Way, an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities in which Martin Harvey played the lead role of Sydney Carton.

The following year she played the lead in the 1916 film version of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist, a role she previously played with much acclaim on stage in 1912.

The intended audience does not include young children, and the film's bleak mood and emphasis on darkness and shadows lead some to consider it the most frightening of the many dramatizations of the Dickens classic.