CHARLES DICKENS Research Articles

The Variety of Dickens's “Bleak House”

CHARLES DICKENS'S immense popularity when his novels first appeared in weekly and monthly parts, and his continuing popularity today is due, above all, to his skill in creating memorable characters whose fortunes the reader compulsively follows. His characters show their creator's remarkable powers of observation, particularly in small details, so that the reader constantly stops to think, ‘How true to life!’ or ‘How like old so‐and‐so!’ Many of them were based on real people—his father (Mr Micawber), his mother (Mrs Nickleby), himself (David Copperfield), but they are so transmuted that the originals did not recognize themselves. In Bleak House he had to modify his sketch of Harold Skimpole, who was too recognizably Leigh Hunt.

Audio‐visual aids

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Charles dickens at the English charity dinner

Charles dickens at the English charity dinner

CHARLES WHITEHEAD AND CHARLES DICKENS

Journal Article CHARLES WHITEHEAD AND CHARLES DICKENS Get access K. J. FIELDING K. J. FIELDING Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume III, Issue 10, April 1952, Pages 141–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/III.10.141 Published: 01 April 1952

Hood and Dickens: Some New Letters

CHARLES DICKENS at twenty-nine was entering into his great fame when, sometime in I84I, he met Thomas Hood, who at fortyone had before him four more years of a fluctuating but generally successful literary career. Each, of course, had previously known something of the other. Hood considered Dickens' earliest work, the Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers, vulgar and unpromising,' but he changed his tone when Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby revealed a healthier and more pronounced moral attitude. His earlier opinion was ascribed to illchosen extracts. Hood wrote from Ostend to Charles Wentworth Dilke' on November 7, 1 839: As regards Boz, his morale is better than his material, though that is often very good; it is wholesome reading: the drift is natural, along with the great human currents, and not against them.... Compared with such merits, his defects of over-painting, and the like, are but spots on the sun'3 In the Athenaeum, November 7, I840, he reviewed at some length The Old Curiosity Shop, then still in process of serial publication as part of Master Humphrey's Clock. Like everyone else, Hood found fault with the artificial framework of the novel, but he waxed enthusiastic over the character and sentiments of Little Nell:

The meeting of Caroline Chisholm and Charles dickens

(1946). The meeting of Caroline Chisholm and Charles dickens. Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand: Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 296-296.

Charles dickens; Child psychologist and sociologist

Charles dickens; Child psychologist and sociologist

Charles dickens's novel “gabriel vardon.”

Charles dickens's novel “gabriel vardon.”