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 ).

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

" Dickens wrote in a letter of 25 September 1853, ' I suppose he is the most exact portrait that was ever painted in words!

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

Capp has credited his inspiration for vividly stylized language to early literary influences like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Damon Runyon, as well as Old-time radio and the Burlesque stage.

The environs are vividly described in Charles Dickens ' novel, Oliver Twist as the place that one of Dickens ' best-known characters, Bill Sikes, meets a violent death in the mud of St Saviour's Dock.

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.

Child labour, often brought about by economic hardship, played an important role in the Industrial Revolution from its outset: Charles Dickens, for example, worked at the age of 12 in a blacking factory, with his family in a debtors ' prison.

Like others who would henceforth write about the topic, Dickens begins by disclaiming a belief in the " noble savage ":

Deep-fried chips ( slices or pieces of potato ) as a dish may have first appeared in Britain in about the same period: the Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest usage of " chips " in this sense the mention in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( published in 1859 ): " Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil ".

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.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

Dickens describes the apparition thus-" Marley's face ... had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.

Dickens later noted that he received " by every post, all manner of strangers writing all manner of letters about their homes and hearths, and how the Carol is read aloud there, and kept on a very little shelf by itself ".

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.

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.

* Charles Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers ( talks about the journalism on Fleet Street ).

The mathematician Tobias Dantzig, in his book Number: The Language of Science, remarked on how a counting-device had brought about the destruction of both Houses of Parliament, and he quotes from a speech given by the English novelist and advocate of social reform, Charles Dickens, in 1855 ( Charles Dickens, Speech to the Administrative Reform Association, June 27, 1855 ).

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 ''.

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.

* June 12 – The Arts Club – was founded by Charles Dickens, Frederic Leighton and others in Hanover Square, London.

The dish became popular in wider circles in London and South East England in the middle of the 19th century ( Charles Dickens mentions a " fried fish warehouse " in Oliver Twist, first published in 1838 ), while in the north of England a trade in deep-fried chipped potatoes developed.

It was during this terrible period in Dickens ' childhood that he observed the lives of the men, women, and children in the most impoverished areas of London and witnessed the social injustices they suffered.

Bennett sold it for £ 200 to Robson and Kerslake of London which sold it to Dickens collector, Stuart M. Samuel for £ 300.

Urania Cottage was a refuge for fallen women established by the writer Charles Dickens in Lime Grove, Shepherd ’ s Bush, London in the late 1840s.

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Charles Dickens, Jr ( eldest child of Charles Dickens ), in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London, described the Pavilion this way: " A large East-end theatre capable of holding considerably over 3, 000 persons.

* Writer Charles Dickens, a one-time resident of Camden Town, placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ); the Micawbers in David Copperfield ( 1850 ); and in Dombey and Son ( 1846 – 1848 ), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.

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.

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.

Jacobi plays twin roles, first a present day London tramp and then the ghost of Charles Dickens.

Booth played various roles on British television, including Sophie in Dickens of London, Mrs Errol in a BBC adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Miss March in a dramatisation of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers.

* Dickens ' London

Charles Dickens used the word slum in a similar way in 1840, writing " I mean to take a great, London, back-slum kind walk tonight ".

The abuses and shortcomings of the system are documented in the novels of Charles Dickens and Frances Trollope and later in People of the Abyss by Jack London.

The Hall's most famous use as a court is in the start of Charles Dickens ' Bleak House, which opens with “ London.

* Charles Dickens has a plaque on the BMA building commemorating his former home Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London.

Charles Dickens alludes to Timon in Great Expectations when Wopsle moves to London to pursue a life in the theatre.

Though Dickens deplored the cost, the building is one of the most familiar landmarks of London.

Porges read the works of such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace.