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1812–1870 England
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles Dickens was trying to ban workhouses his whole career.
England Editors Journalists Novelists Short story writers Also known as: Dickens, Dickens, Charles, Dickens, Charles John Huffam, Chelmsford, Dickensian, Pip(Great Expectations)
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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!… his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
My life is one demd horrid grind.
She's the ornament of her sex.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it.
"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."
Dombey and Son (1846)
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen.
"It was as true," said Mr. Barkis,… "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. "Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!"
…not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
Dombey and Son (1846)
O let us love our occupations,
To procure a refreshing sneeze at anytime by merely stepping out on the staircase (Fortunate location of Dick Swivellers "Chambers" above a Tabacconists)<
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
I know their tricks and their manners.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He do the Police in different voices.
Our Mutual Friend (1864)
I assure you she's the dearest girl.
David Copperfield (1850)
Why then we should drop into poetry.
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
We must scrunch or be scrunched.
Our Mutual Friend (1864)
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