About
Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
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Web Monitor09 Jul 09 | Magazine Monitor - Magazine Monitor
Next Week Web Monitor would like to see reference to Charles Dickens in The Grocer, please. • Over the last few centuries many countries have disappeared, more likely due to regime change than rising sea levels.
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Your disability-themed Christmas TV viewing19 Dec 08 | Vaughan - Ouch
55pm - I confess that I'm not very good on my knowledge of Charles Dickens, but this 2002 film adaptation of one of his books features the character of Smike, who - according to the always authoritative disabilityfilms.co.uk - "has...
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Death of a Dickensian11 Sep 08 | Nick Bryant - The Reporters: Nick Bryant
He even looks like he has come from the pages of a novel by Charles Dickens. But in an age when the present Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rose to the top with the help of a regular spot on breakfast telly, he's not that comfortable on television and his bully-boy menace sometimes scares the viewers.
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Best-sellers, and what you might not know about15 Nov 09 | Chicago Tribune
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Animated films compete for Oscar noms13 Nov 09 | Variety
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The curse of the 'long-awaited' book12 Nov 09 | Guardian.co.uk
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'A Christmas Carol' Review: Carrey, 3-D Update11 Nov 09 | Time
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Open Book - 08/11/200915 Nov 09And the gothic fiction expert Robert Mighall discusses the Terrific Register, a collection of exciting, odd and sometimes gory stories which was the favourite reading material of the young Charles Dickens.
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Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities - 6. The6. The Track of a Storm, 09 Nov 09With Darnay facing great danger in Paris, Lucie leads a rescue. Stars Charles Dance and Charlotte Attenborough.
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Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities - 7. The7. The Knitting Done, 10 Nov 09With Darnay re-arrested and back in prison, Carton makes plans for his release. Stars Charles Dance and John Duttine.
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Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist - 3. Masks and3. Masks and Pistols, 14 Nov 09Dickens dramatisation with Tim McInnerny and Adjoah Andoh.
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Elizabethan wall to be restored28 Sep 09A partly-demolished Tudor wall at an Elizabethan mansion, which had links to Charles Dickens, is to be restored. A 30ft (10m)
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Dickens theme for festive lights13 Sep 09 | LondonThis year's London Christmas celebrations will be themed around the work of Charles Dickens. Dickens' Victorian morality tale A Christmas Carol, written in 1843, became one of the most popular and enduring works of all time.
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Yellow Submarine 'set for remake'20 Aug 09 | EntertainmentThe 3D performance-capture technology is also being used in Zemeckis's forthcoming film, A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the three ghosts who haunt him in the Charles Dickens tale.
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Isle unveiling Tennyson monument06 Aug 09 | HampshireHe also played host to many of the country's leading politicians and leading cultural figures of the time, such as Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, scientist Charles Darwin, the writers Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll and poet Robert Browning. The toposcope was unveiled on an existing...
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30 Rock leads the way for Emmys16 Jul 09 | EntertainmentSir Tom Courtenay and Andy Serkis, who starred together in Charles Dickens adaption Little Dorrit, will compete in the best supporting actor in a mini-series or movie category. No.
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Jim Carrey breaks into song19 May 09Hollywood Actor Jim Carrey was in Cannes to promote his new film A Christmas Carol, based on the famous Charles Dickens novel. Carrey takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three Christmas ghosts.
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From Bleak House to Doll's House11 May 09Gillian Anderson won countless awards for her portrayal of Agent Dana Scully but more recently she has starred in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House and now she's staring in another classic on stage in Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' at the Donmar Warehouse.
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Grant for Cranford author's home16 Apr 09 | ManchesterAuthors including Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte are known to have visited and stayed at the house. Built in the 1830s, the house is described by heritage groups as second only in importance to the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, Yorkshire.
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Charles Dickens's house for sale09 Apr 09The former house of Charles Dickens, where he penned his masterpiece David Copperfield, is up for sale.
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Madoff scandal 'echoes Dickens'16 Dec 08News of the alleged $50bn fraud by Bernard Madoff looked eerily familiar to viewers of the last episode of the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. John Bowen, professor of English at York University and current president of The Dickens Society, discusses the "uncanny...
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