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His second wife, Edith Granger, does not love him and eventually runs away with Carker, a manager at the firm. He was taciturn, soft-footed, very quiet in his manner, deferential, observant, always at hand when wanted, and never near when not wanted; but his great claim to consideration was his respectability.

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I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. Fame trumpets him a wonderful workman - which, for aught that anybody knows, he may be (as he never works); and a wonderful sot - which everybody knows he is.At the time, the madly busy Dickens was taking on “anything and everything,” Tomalin believes, “rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life” with Catherine “and what he might do about it. Badger's wife Laura talks incessantly about her two former husbands, Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo, in Bleak House. Esther Summerson and her unacknowledgeable mother Lady Dedlock, in Bleak House, fall roughly into these categories. Squeers, Wackford Proprietor of Dotheboys Hall, he takes in boys not wanted by their families and mistreats them. Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair.

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When after receiving a small inheritance his father was able to pay his debts and walk free, the family rarely spoke about what they’d been through—and never spoke about what Charles in particular had been through at the blacking factory.Bray, Madeline Girl with whom Nicholas falls in love when he first sees her at an employment office. Dickens is a marvelous farceur, his inkwell overflowing with funny and frightening caricatures not just of men but of women, too—old hags such as Mrs. After all, it’s long been said, and with some justice, that if Dickens were alive today, he’d be writing for TV and the movies, which thrive on what he excelled in making: melodrama with social protest, grotesques worthy of the bar scene in Star Wars (“rotten architecture, but wonderful gargoyles,” as George Orwell said), hilarity, pathos, and suspense.

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Scrooge, Ebenezer Miserly main character in A Christmas Carol, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley and three ghosts of Christmas. It has been suggested that his description (together with his grandchildren) fit that of a person with progeria. Dickens encouraged Gaskell to continue writing about subjects deemed unsuitable for a female novelist, such as illegitimacy and prostitution. Honeythunder, Luke Loud, overbearing philanthropist and guardian of Neville and Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His description of Heep's writhing and scheming, and his cold, clammy nature, makes one's skin crawl in David Copperfield.Nipper, Susan Florence Dombey's maid who is discharged when she confronts Paul Dombey about his treatment of Florence. The ones with spirit and sharpness tend not to be considered sexually alluring, and, often by reason of being thwarted financially or socially, they tend not to be written about in terms of becoming wives (think of Rosa Dartle or Miss Wade). The doctor's younger daughter, Marion, runs away and secretly lives with Martha in The Battle of Life.

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If a college professor dares assign a Dickens work today, it’s bound to be something short, chosen in the hope that students might get through it in a couple of weeks: the thin, unrepresentative Hard Times (1854) or the intricately plotted, and unrepresentative, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. Dombey, Florence Neglected daughter of Paul Dombey and sister of little Paul whom she nurses in his illness. His early experiences of the world’s harshness, his sense that in the end the only person he could count on was himself, made him incapable of deep intimacy. Pickwick is one of Dickens' most beloved characters and his story propelled Dickens to literary stardom.This season, feel your best in a new lingerie set or keep up your fitness with our activewear range. There is a sense that once Bella has been “tamed” by marriage, all that independent nonsense will leave her. We may wonder, however, if the creator of Anna Karenina, even in his long, late religious phase, really felt that way about Dickens’s women: the child-bride sillies such as Dora, the child-saint angels such as Amy Dorrit, the stone-hearted dazzlers such as Estella in Great Expectations, and the all-too-virtuous heroines such as Agnes. In 1836 Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, the 20-year-old daughter of George Hogarth, co-editor of the Chronicle, London’s evening paper.