In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses the words: " the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities.

* Charles Dickens uses the name Izaak Walton in A Tale of Two Cities to develop an extended metaphor comparing Jerry Cruncher's night-time " occupation " of grave robbing to fishing.

They then return to the Gate House, which after the Dissolution of the monasteries was put to many uses, with Shakespeare, Dr Johnson, Hogarth and Dickens all taking part in its story.

One critic called her “ a contemporary Charles Dickens ” while another critic, The New Yorker writer James Wood, said her novels belong to the category of “ the avant-garde of content ,” a term Wood uses to describe his belief that the progressive development of fiction writing now centers on the subject matter a writer chooses to explore.

In his book A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens uses this honorific as a collective noun denoting the great nobility as a class.

Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and A Passage to India ( 1984 ); for bringing Charles Dickens ' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ); and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ).

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

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.

He returned to Doctor Who for the 2011 season finale, again taking the role of Dickens.

* In the Doctor Who episode " The Unquiet Dead ", the Doctor introduces himself to Charles Dickens, prompting Dickens to reply " Doctor?

* A 2005 episode of the television series Doctor Who, " The Unquiet Dead ", shows a fictional Charles Dickens, set the Christmas before his death, overcoming a skepticism of the supernatural and being inspired to write about the gaseous creatures that he fought with the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler, suggesting that his last novel will be completed as The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals, with Edwin's killer being " not of this earth " but blue creatures that were inspired by the Gelth.

In the Doctor Who episode " The Unquiet Dead ", after expressing his admiration for Dickens ' other works, The Doctor criticizes the work saying, " Mind you, for God's sake, the American bit in Martin Chuzzlewit, what's that about?

* Doctor Who ( Dickens )

In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Soho Square is where Lucie and her father, Doctor Manette, reside.

The Doctor and Rose team up with Charles Dickens ( Simon Callow ) to investigate Mr Sneed ( Alan David ), a man who runs a funeral parlor where it seems that corpses have come to life.

Dickens accuses the Doctor of ruining his performance, but after the Doctor gushes over his literary genius, and learning that an adventure is afoot, Dickens gladly joins up to help.

* Dr. Manette, in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities, was thrown into the Bastille prison by means of a lettre de cachet.

Lucie Manette is a character in Charles Dickens ' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.

Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens ' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.

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.

Dickens named several of his female characters after Ternan, including Estella in Great Expectations, Bella in Our Mutual Friend and Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and other may have been inspired by her, particularly Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities.

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.

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 ''.

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 ).

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

* 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 )

* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.

Prostitutes were often presented as victims in sentimental literature such as Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton, and Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* January 3 – Charles Dickens commences writing the novel Hard Times.

* Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens was another enthusiast and the atmosphere of the Nights pervades the opening of his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).

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.

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

Dickens opens the novel with this sketch of the river, and the people who work on it:

The protagonist's name points directly to Little Nell from Dickens ' 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

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

Much of David Copperfield is autobiographical and some scholars believe Heep's mannerisms and physical attributes to be based on Hans Christian Andersen, whom Dickens met shortly before writing the novel.

David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens.

David Copperfield is a 1935 American film based upon the Charles Dickens novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger.

Coffee from the Dickens novel, and directed by George Cukor.

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery ( Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account ), commonly referred to as David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850.