Dickens: Public Life and Private PassionCharles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by guilt and secrecy - rather like the plot of one of his novels. Indeed, Dickens drew strongly on his own experiences as the source for much of his fiction. Here the author offers a fresh view of Dickens's remarkable life story. |
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Public Life and Private Passion | 6 |
CHAPTER | 14 |
CHAPTER THREE | 32 |
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already amateur American arrived audience Barnaby Rudge became began believed blacking factory Bleak House Broadstairs Catherine Dickens Chapter character Charles Dickens child childhood Christmas Carol Cockney comic companion course daughters David Copperfield death decided Dickens's Dickensian dinner Edwin Drood Ellen Ternan energy engaged England eventually father fear feeling fiction friends Gad's Hill Place genius Genoa Georgina Hogarth Hall haunted Household Words humour imagination John Dickens journey knew later Little Dorrit London Maria Beadnell Martin Chuzzlewit Mary Hogarth misery narrative never newspaper Nicholas Nickleby night nineteenth-century novel novelist Oliver Twist once passion perhaps period Pickwick Papers prison public readings publishers railway reform restless scenes Scrooge seemed sense Sketches by Boz soon spirits story strange streets suffering Tavistock House tears theatre theatrical told Forster tour travelled unhappy Victorian visited Weller wife Wilkie Collins writing wrote young Dickens