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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 24 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 829 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 79 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Mr. 18 Dickens 17 Mrs. 16 London 12 Miss 12 John 10 David 10 Charles 9 Pickwick 8 Dombey 7 little 7 House 7 Christmas 6 man 6 Street 6 Oliver 6 Nicholas 6 New 6 God 6 Forster 6 England 5 Saturday 5 Lord 5 January 5 Hill 5 George 5 America 4 illustration 4 english 4 Wednesday 4 Sunday 4 Sir 4 Monday 3 time 3 sidenote 3 great 3 good 3 York 3 Tuesday 3 St. 3 Squeers 3 Rochester 3 Pip 3 Paul 3 Paris 3 Micawber 3 Martin 3 March 3 Macready 3 Little Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4268 man 4187 day 4079 time 2507 letter 2464 year 2427 house 2423 night 2345 book 2312 child 2168 way 2161 friend 2128 place 2112 life 1819 thing 1773 room 1704 story 1674 boy 1673 work 1612 hand 1559 people 1535 illustration 1523 part 1348 nothing 1323 word 1273 name 1226 morning 1199 one 1181 character 1167 number 1047 father 1043 head 989 mind 981 heart 937 world 914 gentleman 907 something 901 home 897 reading 882 school 879 eye 867 hour 866 face 864 side 864 door 862 love 849 dinner 846 sidenote 845 note 834 kind 828 lady Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 19046 _ 6732 Mr. 6190 Dickens 2283 Mrs. 2016 London 1413 Miss 1249 Charles 1190 i. 1096 ii 863 House 843 Pickwick 834 England 765 MY 751 John 701 DEAR 696 David 696 Christmas 646 Oliver 630 New 620 Street 589 Dombey 579 God 578 America 562 Lord 553 Sir 504 St. 491 Copperfield 490 Hill 454 George 452 Forster 445 W. 441 Nicholas 436 Paul 427 Paris 415 Rochester 406 Gad 401 Sunday 396 Old 394 Saturday 391 Hall 381 York 375 Pip 369 pp 366 C. 360 Nickleby 359 Inn 358 English 351 Chap 343 June 339 Macready Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 28160 i 22057 he 20838 it 11090 you 8466 him 6590 me 6225 we 5987 they 4403 she 3769 them 2367 her 2004 himself 1742 us 907 myself 588 itself 472 themselves 438 yours 394 one 340 herself 203 yourself 132 ourselves 123 mine 107 ''em 56 his 41 thee 41 ii 35 ours 26 em 23 hers 21 theirs 12 ''s 8 thyself 7 ye 6 oneself 6 hisself 2 yt 2 yourselves 2 yah 2 whereof 2 us:-- 2 i''m 2 hon 1 youself 1 your 1 you''re 1 yet--_but 1 wot''ll 1 whosoever 1 where---- 1 war,"--now Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 71266 be 28546 have 8062 do 6084 say 5032 go 4848 see 4807 make 4755 come 3856 know 3706 take 3386 write 3272 think 2886 give 2573 find 2485 tell 2367 get 2168 look 1659 leave 1581 call 1505 read 1487 seem 1338 send 1324 hear 1269 begin 1237 live 1206 bring 1185 put 1129 feel 1058 stand 1019 become 1004 keep 979 sit 953 turn 949 show 943 ask 938 speak 935 believe 912 pass 892 use 868 let 819 follow 817 hope 788 hold 784 describe 780 want 772 appear 763 fall 754 suppose 751 like 733 bear Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2337 most 112 well 64 least 6 hard 4 worst 2 ¦ 2 smallest 1 warmest 1 tempest 1 p.s.--please 1 minutest 1 lowest 1 long 1 lest 1 latest 1 inclothe 1 highest 1 goethe 1 easiest 1 disappeared,--the Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.archive.org 2 archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42908/42908-h/42908-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42908/42908-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30127/30127-h/30127-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30127/30127-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/dickensaseducato00hughrich 1 http://www.archive.org 1 http://archive.org/details/dickensianinnsta00matziala 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 _ is _ 35 _ do _ 35 _ was _ 22 dickens was not 20 dickens did not 19 _ did _ 16 _ have _ 16 _ read _ 13 _ do n''t 13 dickens does not 12 _ are _ 12 dickens was always 11 _ know _ 10 _ see _ 9 dickens was very 9 time went on 8 nothing is more 7 _ is not 7 dickens was still 6 _ did n''t 6 _ does _ 6 _ think _ 6 _ was not 6 dickens had not 6 dickens was never 6 dickens was so 5 _ am _ 5 _ had _ 5 dickens is not 5 letter did not 5 man did not 5 people do n''t 5 years went by 4 _ were _ 4 book called _ 4 books are full 4 days gone by 4 dickens is always 4 dickens was fond 4 house is now 4 night came on 4 people are so 4 people do not 4 place is lovely 4 place was not 4 room is up 4 work is very 4 work was not 3 _ be _ 3 _ come back Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 dickens had no faith 2 dickens had no particular 2 dickens had not much 2 dickens was not conscious 2 man had no money 2 man having no great 2 place was not hot 1 _ am not afraid 1 _ am not proud 1 _ has no hero 1 _ has not yet 1 _ have no reason 1 _ have no truer 1 _ is no more 1 _ is not afraid 1 _ is not altogether 1 _ is not certainly 1 _ is not wrongly 1 _ thought not also 1 _ was not always 1 _ was not more 1 books are not much 1 books are not vulgar 1 boy had no parents 1 boy was not at 1 child is no longer 1 child made no audible 1 child made no complaint 1 children are not only 1 children are not repressed 1 children were no longer 1 children were not so 1 day is no more 1 dickens did not commonly 1 dickens did not originally 1 dickens did not really 1 dickens does not really 1 dickens felt no ill 1 dickens gives no name 1 dickens had no _ 1 dickens had no alternative 1 dickens had no great 1 dickens had no interest 1 dickens had no leisure 1 dickens had no real 1 dickens had not drily 1 dickens has not much 1 dickens is no pale 1 dickens is not calm 1 dickens is not most A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 22362 author = Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title = Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens date = keywords = America; Christmas; Chuzzlewit; Copperfield; David; Dickens; Dombey; Drood; England; French; Little; Martin; Micawber; Mr.; Mrs.; Nicholas; Nickleby; Oliver; Pickwick; Revolution; Thackeray; Twist; Weller; english; man summary = caricatures of Dickens remain like things carved in stone. important work of Dickens, that excellent book _Our Mutual Friend_, what a man looks like at first sight--and he simply felt the two things exaggerations of Dickens (as was admirably pointed out by my old friend near to contending that _Little Dorrit_ is Dickens''s best book. Dickens showed himself to be an original man by always accepting old and The last thing to say about Dickens, and especially about books In all the Dickens novels can be seen, so to speak, the original thing The business of a good man in Dickens''s time was to bring And Dickens, through being a living and fighting man of his own time, The time will soon come when the mere common-sense of Dickens, like the Dickens, are the things which would naturally please a man like George Dickens is the old self-made man; id = 25852 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856 date = keywords = Charles; Christmas; Collins; DEAR; DEVONSHIRE; December; Dickens; England; Forster; Friday; God; HOUSE; Household; January; London; Macready; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Paris; Saturday; Sunday; TAVISTOCK; TERRACE; Thursday; Tuesday; Watson; Wednesday; Wills; Words; english; friend; sidenote summary = very long time to come, and to hold a place in your pleasant thoughts, Think of two hours of this every day, and the people coming in by I hope when I come home at the end of the month, we shall foregather me, but I think there are good things in the little story! words insufficient to tell you what I think of you after a night like has come.[8] Kate and Georgy send best loves to Mrs. White, and we hope station-house observation as I shall be to-night for a long time, and I I think you will find some good going in the next "Bleak House." I write me know the day, and come and see how you like the place. Venice, and home by Germany, arriving in good time for Christmas Day. Three nights in Christmas week, I have promised to read in the Town Hall id = 25853 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870 date = keywords = Arthur; Charles; Christmas; DEAR; Dickens; Dolby; February; Forster; Friday; GAD; HIGHAM; HILL; Hogarth; January; John; KENT; London; Macready; March; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; PLACE; ROCHESTER; Saturday; Sunday; TAVISTOCK; Thursday; Tuesday; Wednesday; sidenote summary = Charles Dickens gave two readings at St. Martin''s Hall of "The Christmas Carol" (to such immense audiences and From this place Charles Dickens writes to Mr. Edmund Yates, a young man in whom he had been interested from his talk of our old days at Lausanne, and send loving regard to Mrs. Cerjat way; but as ---had come express from London with it, Mrs. Dickens Coming home here last night, from a day''s business in London, I found The Christmas number of "Household Words," mentioned in a letter to Mr. Wilkie Collins, was called "A House to Let," and contained stories Mrs. Dickens, Miss Hogarth, and all the house send a thousand kind loves this comes to Gad''s Hill; also to my dear good Anne, and her little To-morrow night I read here in a very large place, and Tuesday morning Charles Dickens passed his last Christmas and New Year''s Day at Gad''s id = 25854 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870 date = keywords = America; Charles; DEAR; DEVONSHIRE; Dickens; Edition; Edward; Felton; Forster; God; HILL; HOUSE; Illustrations; January; London; Lord; Lytton; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Saturday; Sir; Sunday; TERRACE; Wednesday; letter; sidenote; £1 summary = looking out for news of Longfellow, and shall be delighted when I know This same man asked me one day, soon after I came home, what Sir John Yesterday morning, New Year''s Day, when I walked into my little workroom forward to it day and night, and wish the time were come. I think I could write a pretty good and a well-timed house last Sunday week, a most extraordinary place, looking like an old I have read in _The Times_ to-day an account of your last night''s [61] Mrs. Winter, a very dear friend and companion of Charles Dickens in If you don''t get perfectly well soon, my dear old fellow, I shall come never was a time when a good new play was more wanted, or had a better Thank my dear Mrs. Fields for me for her delightful letter received on id = 37121 author = Dickens, Charles title = Charles Dickens'' Children Stories date = keywords = David; Harry; Mr.; Mrs.; Paul; Peggotty; Pip summary = well as a dear and happy day to me, father, and I made a little treat The father kissed the cold, little face on the bed, and went There was a pretty little girl six years old, but her father had taken "Well, Master Paul, how do you think you will like me?" said Mrs. Pipchin, seeing the child intently regarding her. night at Mrs. Pipchin''s house, little Paul went home, and was carried seated by the bed, and poor little Mrs. Harry Walmers junior is fast Little David Copperfield lived with his mother in a pretty house in the David said he thought Mr. Peggotty must be a very good man. David was quite sorry to leave these kind people and his dear little "There, sir," said Pip. At this the man started to run away, but stopped and looked over his id = 43207 author = Dickens, Charles title = Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks date = keywords = CRIED; Chap; HEAD; MISS; MRS; OLD; SIR; book; come; don''t; door; face; hand; illustration; little; look; man summary = [Illustration: SAM STOLE A LOOK AT THE INQUIRER--Chap. [Illustration: "I SAY, HOW NICE YOU LOOK!"--Chap. [Illustration: "DO YOU KNOW THE YOUNG LADY, SIR?"--Chap. [Illustration: "SHE IS QUITE EXHAUSTED," SAID THE SCHOOLMASTER--Chap. [Illustration: THE CHILD SAT DOWN IN THIS OLD SILENT PLACE--Chap. [Illustration: "YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING," SAID THE LOCKSMITH--Chap. [Illustration: "SPEAK OUT!" SAID MARTIN, "AND SPEAK THE TRUTH"--Chap. [Illustration: SHE STARTED, STOPPED, AND LOOKED IN--Chap. [Illustration: "I HAVE FRIGHTENED YOU!" SHE SAID--Chap. [Illustration: "HEAVEN HELP US ALL IN THIS WORLD!"--Book 2, chap. [Illustration: "NOTHING CHANGED," SAID THE TRAVELLER, STOPPING TO LOOK [Illustration: THE WINE SHOP--Book 1, chap. [Illustration: THE SHOEMAKER--Book 1, chap. [Illustration: THE GRINDSTONE--Book 3, chap. [Illustration: THE CARMAGNOLE--Book 3, chap. [Illustration: THE THIRD TUMBREL--Book 3, chap. [Illustration: "WHY SHOULD I LOOK AT HIM?" RETURNED ESTELLA--Chap. [Illustration: "DO YOU KNOW THIS!" SAID HE--Chap. [Illustration: "NOW YOU MAY GIVE ME A KISS, PA"--Book 2, chap. [Illustration: OFF YARMOUTH--Book 6, chap. id = 12632 author = Fields, James Thomas title = Yesterdays with Authors date = keywords = America; Bennoch; Boston; Charles; Christmas; Dickens; Dr.; England; English; Felton; Fields; Gad; God; Hawthorne; Hill; Holmes; House; John; Lamb; London; Longfellow; Lord; M.R.M.; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Paris; Pope; President; Procter; Saturday; Thackeray; Ticknor; York; day; dear; friend; good; great; man; time summary = When I was asked, the other day, which of his books I like best, I gave One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his chose to talk it was observed that the best things said that day came As I turn over his letters, the old days, delightful to recall, come "I shall think over the prefatory matter for ''Our Old Home'' to-day, great delight of a little story, called "Pet Marjorie," and said he had years and days, you will write or say to me, "My dear Dickens, you My Dear Friend: Your most kind and welcome letter arrived to-day, an English life; the only way really to know the great man is to Your most welcome letter, my very dear friend, arrived to-day, and Never, my dear friend, did I expect to like so well a man who came id = 25851 author = Forster, John title = The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete date = keywords = America; April; August; Barnaby; Boston; Broadstairs; CHAPTER; Carol; Chapman; Charles; Christmas; Chuzzlewit; Copperfield; Cruikshank; David; December; Dickens; Dombey; Edinburgh; England; February; Friday; Gadshill; Gamp; Genoa; George; God; Hall; Heaven; House; Italy; James; January; Jeffrey; John; July; June; Kate; Lausanne; Life; Little; Liverpool; London; Lord; Maclise; Macready; March; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nickleby; Notes; November; October; Old; Oliver; Paris; Pickwick; Saturday; September; Sir; St.; Street; Sunday; Tuesday; Twist; Wednesday; Year; York; english; footnote; french; reading summary = "I think at that time Dickens took to writing small tales, and we had a time he came up, the man had taken the water at a wrong place, and in a That night must come on these fine days, in course of time was plain; for a moment, at what time of the day or night I should best like you to but at meal-times, as I read and write in our own little state-room. The second case had come in on the very day that Dickens visited the of his pleasant days there close, the little story of his Christmas book which Dickens wrote next day to the _Times_ descriptive of what we had impossible that he can read to-night!'' Says Dolby: ''Sir, I have told Mr. Dickens so, four times to-day, and I have been very anxious. Writing on New Year''s Day, Dickens himself id = 12337 author = Harte, Bret title = Dickens in Camp date = keywords = Dickens; Harte summary = "Dickens In Camp" is held by many admirers of Bret Harte to be his Bret Hart has been generally accepted as the one American writer who It is recorded Harte that at seven years of age he had read The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Harte himself, referring in later years to his childhood Small wonder, then, that, Bret Harte no matter how unconsciously, His biographer, John Forster, relates that Dickens called his attention to two sketches by Bret Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The reached Bret Harte he was in San Rafael. Dickens.'' Bret Harte is dead now and it will not hurt him in politics, Many years later, in May, 1890, Bret Harte, in response to a request but surely the camp-fire spirit is the same with us in our Western Surely the visions we see, the lessons we read in the camp-fire id = 12933 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date = keywords = America; Carlyle; Dickens; Doctor; East; Edison; England; George; Gladstone; God; Goldsmith; Hawkins; Hugo; Ireland; London; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Roycroft; Ruskin; Saint; Shakespeare; Shop; Street; Swift; Turner; Victor; Whitman; good; great; little; man; time summary = man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work? stage when the man says, "I always believed it." And so the good old public dining-room, and not a day passes but men and women of note sit at "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great." Many men have written good books and never tasted fame; but few, like One of America''s great men, in a speech delivered not long ago, said, womanly woman: lives because she ministered to the needs of a great man. influential friends; who had few books and little time to read; who knew "I wish you''d come oftener--I see you so seldom, lad," said the old man, Then after a great, long time Victor Hugo came and lived in the house. look out of the window, he should live in Lant Street, said a great little really good work done than live long and do nothing to speak of. id = 37284 author = Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin) title = Dickens As an Educator date = keywords = Blimber; Creakle; David; Dickens; Doctor; Dombey; Froebel; God; Gradgrind; Jemmy; Joe; John; Lirriper; Louisa; Major; Miss; Monflathers; Mr.; Mrs.; Murdstone; Nicholas; Oliver; Paul; Pipchin; Squeers; Tom; boy; child; good; little; school summary = "Nothing, please, sir," said the little boy. "My dear child," said Squeers, "all people have their trials. "Let any boy speak a word without leave," said Mr. Squeers, "and I''ll take little out of the way, Mrs. Squeers, my dear; I''ve hardly got room life of young men or women when father or mother may enter the hearts of by a good man misguided by false ideas about child training and character of his time in regard to a child''s education when he said to his daughter, boys told Paul on the first day of his school life that he would need a Poor little Miss Pankey spent a great deal of her time in Mrs. Pipchin''s When they reached home, Mr. Gradgrind in an injured tone said to Mrs. Gradgrind, after telling her where he had found the children: "And don''t you think you must be a very wicked little child," said id = 31394 author = Hughes, William R. (William Richard) title = A Week''s Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the ''Inimitable Boz'' Therein Collected date = keywords = Castle; Cathedral; Charles; Chatham; Church; Cobham; David; Dickens; Drood; Edwin; Forster; Gad; Henry; High; Higham; Hill; House; Inn; John; Kent; Kitton; London; Medway; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Pickwick; Place; Rochester; Sir; St.; Street; Strood; William; illustration summary = House as it appeared in Dickens''s time, and Mr. William Ball, J.P., VIEW FROM THE ROOF OF DICKENS''S HOUSE, GAD''S HILL _F. The _Chronicle_ was a great power in its day, when Mr. John Black ("Dear old Black!" Dickens calls him, "my first hearty did a good deal of work for Charles Dickens at Gad''s Hill Place, and [Illustration: Restoration House, Rochester, as it appeared in Dickens''s [Illustration: View from the Roof of Dickens''s House at Gad''s Hill] The early love which Charles Dickens felt for Gad''s Hill House, and his Charles Dickens, and remembered his first coming to Gad''s Hill Place. had worked for Charles Dickens at Gad''s Hill Place, from the date of his soon after the novelist came to Gad''s Hill Place, Mrs. Dickens called Many years afterwards Charles Dickens came to reside at Gad''s Hill "In the year Charles Dickens came to reside at Gad''s Hill, I took id = 16595 author = Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas) title = Charles Dickens and Music date = keywords = B.H.; Charles; D.C.; David; Dickens; Dombey; Dr.; John; L.D.; London; M.C.; Miss; Moore; Mr.; Mrs.; O.C.S.; O.M.F.; P.P.; S.B.T.; little; music; song summary = know a note of music, and sing entirely by ear. references in his letters and works to the music he heard in sing an old-time stage song, such as he used to enjoy in his musical resources in a letter to Miss Power written on July 2, Dickens wrote a few songs and ballads, and in most cases he wrote ''The British Lion, a new song but an old story,'' which Dickens has little to say about the music of his time, but in The numerous songs and vocal works referred to by Dickens Dickens often refers to these old song-books, either under The original reference was to a very popular song of the period Mrs. Micawber''s ''Little Taffline'' was a song in Storace''s Junction, who composed ''Little comic songs-like.'' In this A LIST OF SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC MENTIONED BY DICKENS (This song has been published by almost every music id = 30390 author = Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title = Dickens'' London date = keywords = Bridge; Charles; City; Court; Cross; Dickens; Fleet; George; Hall; Hill; Holborn; House; Inn; James; John; Lane; London; Mr.; Park; Pickwick; Rochester; Sir; Square; St.; Strand; Street; Temple; Theatre; Westminster summary = London Dickens knew, as well as of the changes which have taken place sights and scenes of London connected with the life of Charles Dickens. Yard, and Shoe Lane, the Middle and Inner Temples, and Sergeant''s Inn. The great fire of London of 1666 stopped at St. Dunstan''s-in-the-West and frequented by the London journalist of to-day and of Dickens'' time, still Dickens, like most others who have written of London life, has made have changed since Dickens'' day, London Bridge is undergoing widening and the time of Charles I., and the buildings remaining in Dickens'' day, In Dickens'' time, that glorious thoroughfare, known of all present-day The theatres of London, during the later years of Dickens'' life, may be Of the great event of Dickens'' day, which took place in London, none was Perhaps the greatest topographical change in the London of Dickens'' day middle-class Londoner, who repairs there, or did in Dickens'' time, on id = 16787 author = Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir title = Life of Charles Dickens date = keywords = April; C.D.; Charles; Christmas; David; December; Dickens; February; Forster; George; Italy; January; John; July; June; Life; London; Magazine; March; Martin; Monthly; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pickwick; Review; York; little summary = little Charles and David Copperfield; John Dickens Substitute John Dickens for Mr. Micawber, and Mrs. Dickens for Mrs. Micawber, and make David Copperfield a son of Mr. Micawber, a kind of elder Wilkins, and let little Charles Dickens be therein the story of Dickens'' life at this particular time? For the "Sketches" published in _The Old Monthly Magazine_, Dickens Dickens has written a sketch of her father''s life. place in the recently issued "Charles Dickens" edition of the works. "Martin Chuzzlewit" is unquestionably one of Dickens'' great works. happy time, says enthusiastically, "Charles Dickens, beaming in look, author of "The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens." London, 1886, the Charles Dickens Edition contains eleven fresh papers. ----The Life and Times of Charles Dickens. London News_, June 18, 1870, on Charles Dickens. Forster, John.--The Life of Charles Dickens. Hotten, John Camden.--Charles Dickens, the Story of his Life. Shelton.--Life of Charles Dickens, etc. Perkins, F.B.--Charles Dickens: a sketch of his life and works. id = 42908 author = Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom) title = Dickensian Inns & Taverns date = keywords = Arms; Castle; David; Dickens; George; Head; Hill; Hotel; House; Inn; John; King; Lion; London; Maypole; Mr.; Mrs.; Nicholas; Royal; Saracen; Squeers; Street; illustration summary = up in the place of scores of the old coaching inns possessed the same snug the old man, having moved opposite the inn, placed a clock above the door. Dickens does not name the inn in which this incident took place, and did not exist at the time of the story, so that the inn to which Dickens Head is the inn and Chigwell is the place chosen by Dickens for the centre London, and the George Inn still stands a famous Dickens landmark there, Dickens makes no mention of the inn where this meeting took place, but H. It was the principal coaching inn of the town, and we know that Dickens The county inn was without doubt the Royal Fountain Hotel in St. Margaret''s Street, for it was invariably referred to in the coaching days It is a curious fact that Wood''s Hotel, one of London''s old-time inns id = 1243 author = Meynell, Alice title = Hearts of Controversy date = keywords = Bronte; Charlotte; Dickens; English; Micawber; Mr.; Pecksniff; Swinburne; Tennyson; french; great; man; poet; word summary = Fifty years after Tennyson''s birth he was saluted a great poet by that liberal sense of ease; how, in a word, fostering Letters and loving English style in poetry and prose, cited those lines as topmost in be restored to a more proportionate honour, our great poet Tennyson shows In the first place the poet with the great welcome style and the little unwelcome manner, Tennyson is, in the second place, the modern poet who there a subtle word, this nature-loving nation to perceive land, light, his--great poet--wild winds, wild lights, wild heart, wild eyes! through a creating mind that worked its six days for the love of good, this man''s art that I believe the words to hold and use his meaning, wrote: "I looked at my love; it shivered in my heart like a suffering find this little affectation in Pope''s word "sky" where a simpler poet id = 27572 author = Nicklin, J. A. (John Arnold) title = Dickens-Land date = keywords = Chatham; Cobham; Dickens; Gadshill; House; Kent; London; Medway; Mr.; Pickwick; Rochester; Street summary = [Illustration: CHALK, HOUSE WHERE DICKENS SPENT HIS HONEYMOON] Chalk, House where Dickens spent his honeymoon _Frontispiece_ delightfully oldfashioned inn of the old coaching days", the "Sir John the summer, Dickens would write such novels as _Great Expectations_, and quaint old house adjoining the Cathedral which has ten rooms, some of When the little Charles Dickens was taken away to London inside the It was old associations that led Dickens so often in his walks from Out of the Cobham woods it is not a long walk to the little village of mile and a half north of Aylesford, a grey old cairn, set on a green In many an old house of Kentish yeoman or squire Dickens famous London-to-Dover road through Rochester, Chatham, and Canterbury. and careless", "in one little orchard attached to an old stone house But when Dickens took Rochester once more for the background of a story id = 30127 author = Rives, Hallie Erminie title = Tales from Dickens date = keywords = Arthur; Barnaby; Boffin; Chuzzlewit; David; Dombey; Dorrit; Florence; Joe; John; London; Martin; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nell; Nicholas; Oliver; Pecksniff; Pickwick; Pip; Winkle; little summary = Even Mrs. Pipchin, of whom he told in _Dombey and Son_, and Mr. Micawber in _David Copperfield_, were real people whom he knew in these The first Kit knew of this was that night when little Nell came to tell The old man did not know where to go, but little Nell took his hand and man, and loved little Nell when he first saw her, because she was like a In the house lived a lady named Mrs. Maylie, just as kind-hearted as was One day, when Pip was considerably older, Uncle Pumblechook brought Mrs. Joe word that a Miss Havisham, a lady who lived in his own town, had Then, one day he went down to the old ruined house where Miss Havisham Little Dorrit told the old man with her arms around his neck, and as she In London there once lived an old man named Harmon who had made a great id = 11126 author = Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title = Ten Girls from Dickens date = keywords = Charley; Crummles; Dick; Dombey; Florence; Gradgrind; Jarley; Jenny; Kenwigs; Marchioness; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nell; Nicholas; Sissy; Swiveller; Walter; Wren summary = "Well--come in," said Mr. Swiveller, after a little consideration. The old man covered his face with his hands, as the child added, "Let us "N-no further to-night, I think," said the child, looking toward her "You''re a young traveller, my child," he said, laying his hand gently on Nell''s little purse lay empty, and still the old man sat "But is there no more, Nell," said the old man--"no more anywhere? "Good evening, godmother!" said Miss Jenny Wren. "Come in, sir," said Miss Wren, "and who may you be?" "Why, you''re like the giant," said Miss Wren, "when he came home in the "I have come for little Miss Harmonses'' doll," said Sloppy. "No, Miss Louisa," answered Sissy, "father knows very little indeed. "Dear Miss Louisa," said Sissy, sobbing yet; "I came home from the "If you please, miss," said the little girl in a soft voice, "I am id = 11227 author = Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title = Ten Boys from Dickens date = keywords = Blimber; Brownlow; Dombey; Havisham; Jew; Joe; Kit; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Murdstone; Nicholas; Oliver; Paul; Peggotty; Pip; Squeers; Steerforth summary = public-house, a boy crossed over, and walking close to him, said, "You''re a clever boy, my dear," said the playful old gentleman, patting "The old gentleman over the way?" said Oliver. "Yes," said the old gentleman, "I am afraid that is the boy. If ever that boy returns to this house, sir," said Mr. Grimwig, "I''ll eat The striking likeness between this portrait and Oliver had led Mr. Brownlow to recognise the boy as the child of his dear old friend. "Nothing, please sir," said the little boy. I know," returned the child; "I am so tired sometimes," said little Paul, "If the bull was mad," said Paul, "how did he know that the boy had asked "I have had some communication with the doctor, Mrs. Pipchin," said Mr. Dombey, "and he does not think Paul at all too young for his purposes. "Now, boy," he said, "what was Miss Havisham a-doing of when you went in id = 34112 author = Trumble, Alfred title = In Jail with Charles Dickens date = keywords = Bailey; Bench; Captain; Court; Dickens; Fleet; John; King; London; Lord; Marshalsea; Micawber; Mr.; Newgate; Old; Pickwick; little; man; prison summary = Newgate was the first prison to which Charles Dickens gave any literary cage in the wall of the Fleet Prison, within which was posted some man case a man ran to and fro in the neighboring streets to the prison, Prisoners who had been a certain number of years in the jail had a "The gates of the King''s Bench and the Fleet Prison, being opened at "The morning light was in no hurry to climb the prison wall and look old Marshalsea Prison for the first time; for despair seldom comes lived more comfortably in prison than they had done for a long time looked, with my mind''s eye, into the Fleet prison during Mr. Pickwick''s The King''s Bench Prison of Micawber''s time stood in the Borough Road. little prison, and complained that "to a man who had money the Bench was id = 36714 author = Ward, Adolphus William, Sir title = Dickens date = keywords = Bleak; Charles; Christmas; Cloth; Copperfield; David; Dickens; Dombey; England; Forster; Hill; House; Household; John; Little; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oliver; Pickwick; Sketches; american; english; life; time; year summary = At the close of a letter addressed by Dickens to his friend John Forster, life, Charles Dickens, like the rest of the world, had his share of Dickens had a great liking, Dolly Varden has justly taken hold of the round very naturally took up some time; for the circuit of Dickens''s daily appears to me to be a fearful man." And as at all times in Dickens''s life, work pure and simple, in which Dickens in these years for the first time the other hand, _Bleak House_ was probably the first of Dickens''s works In truth, Dickens in _Bleak House_ for the first time secret from the general public, Dickens at the same time must have wished than Dickens was once more at work upon a new fiction. Dickens, it should be remembered, was at no time a man of many friends. The "Murder" was frequently read by Dickens not less than four times a id = 32372 author = nan title = Dickens''s Children: Ten Drawings date = keywords = illustration summary = Little Nell and Her Grandfather at Mrs. Jarley''s _"Our Mutual Friend," Chapter I, Book Second_ Mrs. Kenwigs and the Four Little Kenwigses _"Christmas Stories," The Holly-Tree, Second Branch_ DAVID COPPERFIELD AND PEGGOTTY BY THE PARLOUR FIRE DAVID COPPERFIELD AND PEGGOTTY BY THE PARLOUR FIRE DAVID COPPERFIELD AND PEGGOTTY BY THE PARLOUR FIRE _"David Copperfield," Chapter II_ _"David Copperfield," Chapter II_ "But _were_ you ever married, Peggotty?" says I. _"Dombey and Son," Chapter VIII_ _"Dombey and Son," Chapter VIII_ LITTLE NELL AND HER GRANDFATHER AT MRS. LITTLE NELL AND HER GRANDFATHER AT MRS. "Set ''em out near the hind wheels, child, that''s the best place"--said _"Great Expectations," Chapter II_ _"Great Expectations," Chapter II_ said Joe, all aghast. Chapter I, Book Second_ _"Oliver Twist," Chapter VIII_ _"Oliver Twist," Chapter VIII_ KENWIGS AND THE FOUR LITTLE KENWIGSES KENWIGS AND THE FOUR LITTLE KENWIGSES _"David Copperfield," Chapter III_ _"David Copperfield," Chapter III_