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.

During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair.

You said it had affinity to Jane Eyre: it has — now and then — only what an advantage has Dickens in his varied knowledge of men and things !".

When his father was released at the end of a three-month stint, young Dickens was forced to continue working in the factory, which only grieved and humiliated him further.

A year later, the profits were only £ 744 and Dickens was deeply disappointed.

An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray, who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for

A fictional Lord Chancellor also appears in Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House ( also identified only by title ), presiding over the interminable chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

With the removal of the plinth and plaque, the only remaining reference to the Dickens novel is a quotation from Copperfield's aunt inlaid into the path through the park: "... a little change, and a glimpse of life out of doors, may be useful, in helping you to know your own mind ..."

The poet and novelist Vincent McHugh however, reviewing the novel for the New York Herald Tribune Books in 1936, declared it as having affinities with George Gissing, a writer Orwell greatly admired, and placed the novel in a particular tradition, that of Dickens and Gissing: " Mr Orwell too writes of a world crawling with poverty, a horrible dun flat terrain in which the abuses marked out by those earlier writers have been for the most part only deepened and consolidated.

They are both killed and replaced for the first series by Laura Dickens ( Diane Keen ), the only female Sandbagger, killed at the end of the first series.

For example, Dickens ' novel Great Expectations is noted for having only a single page of exposition before the rising action begins, while The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R.

The early monthly numbers were not as successful as Dickens ' previous work and only sold about twenty thousand copies each ( compared to forty to fifty thousand for the monthly numbers of the Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby and sixty to seventy thousand for the weekly issues of Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop ) causing a break between Dickens and his publishers Chapman and Hall when they invoked a penalty clause in his contract requiring him to pay back money they had lent him to cover their costs.

It was Dickens ' first attempt at a historical novel ( his only other being the much later A Tale of Two Cities, also set in revolutionary times ).

Dombey and Son not only prepares the ground for Dickens ’ s later masterpieces, but demands to be enjoyed for its own energy and richness.

Women were barred from the race at first, and it was not until 1971 that Sheila Burnett from Cambridge Canoe Club finished the race with Colin Dickens, only to be disqualified when it was discovered that she was a woman.

Later, telling Jimmy he needed a hit, Williams penned " Hey Good Lookin '" specifically for Dickens in only 20 minutes while on a Grand Ole Opry tour bus.

Carol for Another Christmas, scripted by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol and a plea for global cooperation between nations, was telecast only once — December 28, 1964.

It replaces the Jacoby D. Dickens Athletic Center, which only had capacity to seat 2, 500 persons.

In 1871 his only novel So very Human was published, with a title suggested by a phrase from Charles Dickens.

As children began to be able to read, literature for young people became a growth industry, with not only established writers producing works for children ( such as Dickens ' A Child's History of England ) but also a new group of dedicated children's authors.

1935 was her most memorable year in Hollywood, when she not only distinguished herself in two memorable Dickens ' adaptations as David's unfortunate young mother in George Cukor's David Copperfield and as Lucie Manette in Jack Conway's A Tale of Two Cities, but was also featured in Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire.

The film did in fact win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for 1972 and to this day remains the only film adaptation of Dickens ' story to be so honored.

Dickens, for excellent psychological reasons, never fully reveals Magwitch's felonious past, but Pip, at the convict's climactic reappearance in London, shrinks from clasping a hand which he fears `` might be stained with blood ''.

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.

One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (" double-six ") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which ( like all his cars ) he calls " Mrs. Merdle " after a character in Little Dorrit ( by Charles Dickens ) who " hated fuss ".

* Monks ( Oliver Twist ), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

" 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 ".

Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).

* Jarvis Lorry, a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

Dickens negatively emphasizes Uriah's movements as well, described as jerking and writhing ; this leads some literary scholars to believe Dickens is describing a form of dystonia, a muscular disorder, to increase Uriah's snakelike character.

* The titular character in Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist spends his first years in a " baby farm.

Confirmation bias has been described as an internal " Wikt: yes man | yes man ", echoing back a person's beliefs like Charles Dickens ' character Uriah Heep.

Charles Laughton was originally cast in the role of Mr. Micawber, and was authentically made-up with a bald cap, since Dickens describes the character as hairless.

Somerset Maugham considered it a great novel, although he found David the weakest character in it, unworthy of the real Dickens, praising Mr Mickawber, who " never fails ", and considered that Little Em ' ly got what she was asking for.

One possibly intentional example is the character Charley Bates from Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist, frequently referred to as Master Bates.

The plot of Dickens ' original novel is considerably simplified for the purposes of the musical, with Fagin being represented more as a comic character than as a villain, and large portions of the latter part of the story being completely left out.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens ' famous short story A Christmas Carol starring the character Mr. Magoo.

A number of references to Scrooge's ( more accurately Magoo's ) poor vision are sprinkled through the story, a nod to the Magoo character, but except for the beginning and ending pieces which occur outside the framework of the Dickens story, there are none of the usual Magoo catastrophes.

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

The character Little Dorrit ( Amy ) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper ( née Mitton ): Charles Dickens sometimes visited her and her family ; they lived in The Cedars, a house on Hatton Road west of London ; its site is now under the east end of London Heathrow Airport.

Several theories have been put forward as to where Dickens got additional inspiration for the character.

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

Then the name was changed to that of the well-known character from David Copperfield, Uriah Heep ( for, according to biographer Kirk Blows, " Dickens ' name being everywhere around Christmas ' 69 due to it being the hundredth anniversary of his death ") and the decision came of widening the sound.

The album's title references the signature phrase of the Dickens character Uriah Heep (" very ' umble ") from the novel David Copperfield from which the band took its name.