CHARLES DICKENS
Posted on 06/09/2020 9:56:38 AM PDT by Borges
When Charles Dickens died of an apparent stroke on June 9, 1870, the news was not cabled to the United States until later that night. Many New Yorkers did not learn about the British novelist’s death until the morning of June 11, when it was splashed across the front page of The Times.
No writer of the age was more beloved than Dickens. Just as people had once clamored for the next installment of his serialized novels, they now sought new details about his life and death at 58. For months, the newspaper brimmed with stories about Dickens’s final hours, his funeral, his will, the auction of his art collection, even his estate sale, where a set of old flowerpots went for a guinea.
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Great picture. Thanks!
Isn’t he the commie that wrote all about how evil the rich people are?
You are obviously an avid reader of Dickens.
Dickens had great respect for Edgar Allen Poe.
On his first lecture tour of America, Dickens sent Poe a message asking Poe to meet him in the lobby of the hotel in Philadelphia he was staying in, between noon and 1pm.
As the editor of a Philadelphia monthly magazine, Poe had determined the outcome of the latest Dickens book being serialized in a US magazine after only two chapters. Poe guessed the ending correctly and explained the technical formula by which such a book was written. In his note to Poe, Dickens went into a discussion of a number of other books and their various formulas.
On his second lecture tour of the US, Poe was dead, but Dickens hunted up Poe’s mother in law, now living in a Baltimore indigent home, and gave her a $100 bill.
CHARLES DICKENS
No he was not.
I think he must ave been a kind and jolly man. Notice the laugh lines around his eyes.
You have to realize that at that time there was no telephone or internet.
People wrote letters many times over 20 pages long.
There was no entertainment except stage plays and READING.
Charles Dickens museum in Kent vandalised by ex-Green councillor decrying author ‘racist’
Express ^ | 6/30/2020 | BRIAN MCGLEENON
Posted on 6/30/2020, 2:11:15 AM by Borges
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1302718/kent-news-Charles-dickens-museum-graffiti-racist-black-lives-matter
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, a former Green Party councillor has daubed the Charles Dickens museum with the words “Dickens Racist, Dickens Racist”. that he will make “no apology” for what he has done because the author was a “notorious genocidal racist”. Ian Driver from Kent, said he will make “no apology” for what he has done because the author was a “notorious genocidal racist”.
Mr Driver cited the famous character of Fagin in Oliver Twist as being an anti-Semitic stereotype.
The words were daubed on The Dickens House Museum in Broadstairs, Kent.
But, father of three Mr Driver told how he perceived this area of Kent to have an underbelly of racism.
Mr Driver said today: “I have been campaigning for quite a long time about what I regard to be institutional racism in Thanet and Broadstairs in particular.
anything about it.
“I think it is quite demeaning towards black people and there is no justification for it.
“But after the Black Lives Matter protests and seeing people learn their local history like the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, I decided to do some digging into my hometown of 12 years.
“Charles Dickens is celebrated in Broadstairs like a local hero and money maker just because he wrote a few books here.
“In reality, he was a notorious genocidal racist and should be depicted as such.
“That’s the real Dickens.”
The former councillor explained how Charles Dickens was an enthusiastic supporter of British Imperialism.
He said: “He supported the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica in 1865.
“He also supported the suppression of the Indian rebellion in 1857 saying their race should be wiped out and also referred to black and Asian people as savages.
“There is no defending him yet there is a whole museum dedicated to him on my doorstep with no mention of his other life as a racist.
“The National Portrait Gallery even has a few paragraphs explaining this other side of history.
“I think it’s important to get both sides and a balanced view.”
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