In 2009 he also wrote a book, Drood, based on Charles Dickens ' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

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,

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

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

Charles Dickens wrote of her in 1865 that " he carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and has deserved to win it.

Charles Dickens wrote an article about her life in February 1865 in his literary magazine All the Year Round that emphasised the difficulties she had overcome, especially the scepticism of her fellow townspeople.

In 1853 Charles Dickens wrote a scathingly sarcastic review in his weekly magazine Household Words of painter George Catlin's show of American Indians when it visited England.

Field became a friend of Charles Dickens and the latter wrote articles about him.

In the preface to the 1867 Charles Dickens edition, he wrote, "… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child.

Charles Dickens, who was influenced by Fielding, wrote his first six novels in the picaresque form, with Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844 ) being the transitional novel to his later more serious and mature works.

'" Thackeray wrote about Tiny Tim, " There is not a reader in England but that little creature will be a bond of union between the author and him ; and he will say of Charles Dickens, as the woman just now, ' GOD BLESS HIM!

Dickens wrote in the wake of British government changes to the welfare system known as the Poor Laws, changes that required among other things, welfare applicants to work on treadmills.

Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas story about a lamplighter in Canonbury, which features the Tower.

At the same time, however, the remaining scenes are remarkably faithful to the original, with characters often speaking the lines as Dickens wrote them, and little or no simplification of the language to suit a younger audience living over a century later.

* William B. McIver a Spur student in the 1940s, wrote By Dead Reckoning, a book that includes chapters on the history of the Espuela Land and Cattle Company, the founding of Spur, and life on a cotton farm and dairy in Highway Community district of Dickens County.

Dickens wrote that it must have " shrivelled " Scroggie ’ s soul to carry " such a terrible thing to eternity ".

By 1869, the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple, and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote ( in his periodical " All the Year Round ") of: the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir table

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Dickens wrote vividly about London life and struggles of the poor, but in a good-humoured fashion, accessible to readers of all classes.

On his return he wrote, at the request of Charles Dickens, for All the Year Round, " Sketches of Life in a South American Republic.

Charles Dickens wrote in 1846 that " All his life had utterly mistaken his vocation.

* Charles Dickens ( 1812 – 1870 ), lived at 29 Johnson ( now Cranleigh ) Street for four years, then moved in November 1828 to 17 The Polygon ; he wrote of the gravediggers in St Pancras Churchyard

Charles Dickens visited Tynemouth and wrote in a letter from Newcastle, dated 4 March 1867:

Charles Dickens frequently visited Chigwell, which he described in a letter as " the greatest place in the world ... Such a delicious old inn opposite the church ... such beautiful forest scenery ... such an out of the way rural place!

Dickens wished to satirize radical Utilitarians whom he described in a letter to Charles Knight as " see figures and averages, and nothing else.

A letter from Dickens to Forster on 26 July 1846 shows the major details of the plot and theme already substantially worked out.

Two days later Forster received a letter from Dickens which read simply: "" We have heard THE CHIMES at midnight, Master Shallow!

The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi sold well, to Dickens's surprise, but John Forster quotes an unpublished letter in which, according to Dickens, " a gentleman unknown ... has made the profound discovery that I can never have seen Grimaldi.

Dickens reportedly misheard this as an instruction as to the name which she should include in the inscription (" Emma Chisit ") and thus was born the phenomenon of " Strine " which filled the newspaper's letter columns and subsequently was the subject of a separate weekly article and, later, a series of humorous books.

The " adamant opposition " letter was signed by the following 29 City Council members: Addabbo, Avella, Barron, Comrie, DeBlasio, Dickens, Eugene, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gioia, S. Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Liu, M. Martinez, Mealy, R. Mendez, Monserrate, Palma, Reyna, J. Rivera, Sanders, Sears, Vacca, Vann, Weprin, T. White and Yassky.

Elizabeth Gaskell would have preferred to call the novel Margaret Hale, the heroine's name, as she did in 1848 for the novel Mary Barton, but Dickens prevailed, saying in a letter dated July 26, 1854, that " North South ” seems better.

* A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens, published from January 25, 1851-December 10, 1853

Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on December 20, 1851 ; the second, December 25, 1852 ; and the third, December 24, 1853.

Monica Enid Dickens, MBE ( born 10 May 1915, London – died 25 December 1992, Reading, Berkshire ) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.

It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens ' home from March 25, 1837 ( a year after his marriage ) to December 1839.

In its original prospectus Hill says that " he will make it his study to excite pupils ' reasoning powers, and to induce in them habits of voluntary application ... he will always endeavour, by kindness and patience, to secure for himself their affection and esteem "; perhaps not revolutionary aims nowadays, but this was more than 25 years before Thomas Arnold became headmaster of Rugby or Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby.

For example, The Library of Great Poetry ( 25 volumes ), The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens ( 16 volumes ) and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia ( seven volumes ).

Ellen Lawless Ternan ( 3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914 ), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, was an English actress who is mainly known as the mistress of Charles Dickens.

Dickens began to write A Christmas Carol in September 1843, and completed the book in six weeks with the final pages written in the beginning of December.

Since a refit in 2007, there has been no sign indicating the name, but a plaque was placed on a plinth in the original garden in September 1931 by the Dickens Fellowship, which explained that this was the place where in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield stopped " in the Kent Road ... at a terrace with a piece of water before it, and a great foolish image in the middle, blowing a dry shell ".

Dickens signed with Columbia in September and joined the Opry in August.

" The Genius of Dickens " ( Brief Literary Criticisms, p 56f ) as quoted in Gaylord C. LeRoy, " Richard Holt Hutton " PMLA 56. 3 ( September 1941: 809-840 ) p. 831.

North and South previously appeared in 20 weekly episodes from September 1854 to January 1855 in Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens.