charles dickens

     

Queen Victoria called his death "A very great loss. He had ... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes"

Trivia about charles dickens

  • His "Pickwick Papers" was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz
  • When this "Oliver Twist" author fell for an actress, his wife twisted his arm for a legal separation
  • He fictionalized his early love Maria Beadnell as Dora Spenlow, the first wife of "David Copperfield"
  • His tale of "A Christmas Carol" was published when he was 31
  • This 19th C. British author is credited with making the turkey a popular choice for Christmas dinners
  • His father, John, like his creation Mr. Pickwick, served time in debtor's prison
  • Readers in 1860-61 picked up copies of "All The Year Round" to read installments of his "Great Expectations"
  • Of all his books, he said “David Copperfield” was his “favourite child”
  • "Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author
  • Critics didn't "Heep" praise on "Copperfield", based on a novel by this man; it closed in 2 weeks
  • Popular in 1830s England, "gonof", a slang term for pickpocket, appears in his novel "Bleak House"
  • Australian composer Arthur Benjamin's 1953 opera "A Tale of Two Cities" is based on a novel by this author
  • "David Copperfield" is considered his most autobiographical novel
  • His great-granddaughter Monica, who's a novelist too, probably never called him an "old curiosity"
  • The "Twist"s & turns of this author's 1842 American tour led him to meet E.A. Poe in Philadelphia
  • Add a new twist to your London vacation & visit the home at 48 Doughty St. where he wrote "Oliver Twist"
  • Of all his books, he said he liked "David Copperfield" the best
  • Mr. Pecksniff in his "Martin Chuzzlewit" was such a hypocrite that pecksniffery became a synonym for hypocrisy
  • This author's Mr. Bumble declared that "The law is a ass, a idiot"
  • He often worked with an illustrator known as "Phiz", but his "Great Expectations" had no Phiz
  • Wilkins Micawber,Samuel Pickwick,Bob Cratchit
  • This author's vile creation Uriah Heep has his fraud justly exposed & goes to prison
  • Pickwick & his pals visit Manor Farm at Dingley Dell in this author's "Pickwick Papers"
  • In 1841, crowds gathered on NYC docks to get the (not good) news of the fate of this author's Little Nell
  • "Dombey and Son","Hard Times","Our Mutual Friend"
  • He began serializing his "Child's History of England", but he's a bit better known for "Great Expectations"
  • Unhappy in his marriage, he loved his wife's sister & memorialized her in "Oliver Twist"
  • Using the alias Phiz, H.K. Browne was the original illustrator of "Bleak House" & many other works by this author
  • The actual title of his 1st novel is "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"
  • His novel "Nicholas Nickleby" was first published in serial form in "Bentley's Miscellany"
  • Here's a twist: he created Clara Copperfield
  • He was the editor of "Household Words", which published his "Hard Times" in 1854
  • Zandonai's opera "Il Grillo del Focolare" is adapted from this author's "The Cricket on the Hearth"
  • "Nicholas Nickleby","Barnaby Rudge","Martin Chuzzlewit"
  • British author who created Little Nell & Little Dorrit
  • In 1994 a portrait of this author whose father went to debtor's prison was put on the British 10-pound note
  • The fish called the Dolly Varden Trout was named for a character in this author's "Barnaby Rudge"
  • This Englishman's detailed & highly popular novels examined 19th century social conditions
  • This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished
  • In 1842 Poe reviewed this author's "Barnaby Rudge", which features (hmmm) a human-like raven
  • Phillip Pirrip, of whom much is expected
  • On their first date, Twain took his future wife to a reading given by this English author in 1867
  • Montague Tigg uses the rather obvious alias Tigg Montague in his novel "Martin Chuzzlewit"
  • This Englishman's 900-page novel "Nicholas Nickleby" became a 9-hour play & a miniseries
  • The biggest mystery in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is how this author planned to finish it
  • The county of Hampshire is famed as the home of Jane Austen & this author of "Nicholas Nickleby"
  • His "Our Mutual Friend" says, "He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water"
  • He wrote his 1848 novel "Dombey and Son" while living in Switzerland
  • In 1858 W.M. Thackeray quarreled with this author in the so-called Garrick Club Affair
  • This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities"
  • "Hard times", indeed! A giant quake struck New Madrid, MO, on Feb. 7, 1812, the day this author struck England
  • This "Cricket on the Hearth" author wrote the libretto for John Hullah's "The Village Coquettes"
  • This eminent Victorian was a Pip of an author
  • 4 years before writing "Little Dorrit", he wrote his wife that their daughter "Little Dora...is suddenly stricken ill"
  • In his "American Notes", this British author relates meeting the "Unaffected, gentlemanly, & agreeable" Tyler

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