Category: Biographies
1. CHARLES DICKENS IN 1857 _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. 1 MILE END TERRACE, PORTSEA (NOW 393 COMMERCIAL ROAD PORTSMOUTH) 1 3. CLEVELAND STREET (LATE NORFOLK STREET), FITZROY SQUARE 8 4. 2 (NOW 11) ORDNANCE TERRACE, CHATHAM 12 5. 18 ST. MARY’S PLACE, THE BROOK, CHATHAM 17 6. F...
About midway between Gravesend and Rochester, on the old Dover Road, and in the parish of Higham, is Gad’s Hill, immortalized both by Shakespeare and Dickens. With regard to the...
8. CHAPTER VII.In 1837 Dickens’s thoughts were concentrated upon a new serial story, “Nicholas Nickleby,” in which he determined to expose the shortcomings of cheap boarding-schools then flour...
4. CHAPTER III.Dickens’s earlier sketches (which bore no signature until August, 1834, when he adopted the pseudonym of “Boz”) were penned when living with his father in Bentinck Street. At fi...
3. CHAPTER II.It was in the early spring of 1823 that Charles Dickens made acquaintance with London for the second time, that vast Metropolis which henceforth continued to exercise a fascinat...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The year 1838, in which Charles Dickens, accompanied by “Phiz,” hazarded that bitter coach-ride to the northern wilds of Yorkshire, is memorable also for another “bachelor excur...
2. CHAPTER I.The writer of an article in a well-known magazine conceived the idea of preparing a map of England that should indicate, by means of a tint, those portions especially associated...
10. CHAPTER IX.“Kent, sir! Everybody knows Kent. Apples, cherries, hops, and women.” Thus did Alfred Jingle briefly summarize for the behoof of Tracy Tupman the principal characteristics of th...
5. CHAPTER IV.Dickens first made acquaintance with many provincial towns during his early newspaper days, when, as a reporter, he galloped by road in post-chaises, both by day and night, to r...
6. CHAPTER V.In 1838, when engaged upon “Nicholas Nickleby,” Dickens renewed acquaintance with the town, of which it is fair to suppose he could remember but little, seeing that he was only...
7. CHAPTER VI.Dickens must have become first acquainted with Eastern England during his reporting days, as many of the scenes in “Pickwick” are laid in the chief town of Suffolk. The merging,...
1. CHAPTER X1. CHARLES DICKENS IN 1857 _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. 1 MILE END TERRACE, PORTSEA (NOW 393 COMMERCIAL ROAD PORTSMOUTH) 1 3. CLEVELAND STREET (LATE NORFOLK STREET), FITZROY SQ...