"had beards and wore head coverings. He would often, in keeping with Jewish ""chesed"" (laws of mercy and charity), go into other parts of the prison to comfort prisoners by speaking with them and playing the violin. In keeping with ""tzedaka"" (charity) laws, he gave what little money he could to those in need. Charles Dickens, in his novel ""Barnaby Rudge"", which centres around the Gordon Riots, describes Gordon as a true ""tzadik"" (pious man) among the prisoners: On 28 January 1793, Lord George Gordon's sentence expired and he had to appear to give claim to his future good behaviour."
"Bow Street"" depicts the Gordon Riots and the recalcitrance of Lord North to the establishment of a police force. In Bernard Cornwell's ""Sharpe"" novels, the protagonist Richard Sharpe's mother was killed during the riots while he was still a child. Miranda Hearn's 2003 historical novel ""A Life Everlasting"" depicts the main protagonists caught up in the riots as innocent Londoners. Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting based on anti-Catholic feeling. They began with a massive and orderly protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against"
"starting point of the Gordon Riots in 1780 which began in the movement to repeal the act of parliament removing penalties for Catholics. The obelisk at St George's Circus was built in 1771 in honour of Brass Crosby, the Lord Mayor of the City of London. It was moved to the north apex of Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, (the remnant of Multon Close) a short distant southwest, in front of the museum, in 1905, and put back in its original spot in the late 1990s. The Obelisk was mentioned in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens: St George's Cathedral,"
"he is informed about a funeral held for the schoolchildren that were shot during riots. Once he arrives he sees the army trying to break up the funeral, and as he begins to fight back a gunshot is heard along with a scream. he runs and then is reunited with Frikkie, a current patron of the army. He accidentally hits him, and as he takes his gun he notices who the soldier was. The share good memories, and debate, but they split ways and keep their meeting- and their friendship- a secret. Gordon won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award"
"politician John Wilkes, who led troops against the rioters. Many of his followers saw this as a betrayal; some of them may have been among the rioters. A pamphlet and a book of poems defending the role of Gordon were written and published by the polemicist and hymn-writer Maria De Fleury. The events at the Bank of England started a tradition where a detachment of soldiers, usually from the Brigade of Guards would march to the bank to perform security duties. Until 1963 the duty was performed by the Guards in Home Service Dress with bearskin, though tennis shoes were"
"he attended Wisbech Grammar School. The contrast of its flat, rural landscape had a profound effect on the young Geordie and inspired him to write many of his most popular stories including ""The House on the Brink"", its sequel ""Ride the Wind"", and ""Fen Runners"". Gordon served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, on minesweepers and destroyers, and afterward worked as a journalist in the West Country and East Anglia. During his time working on ""The Eastern Evening News"" in Norwich he wrote his first novel, ""The Giant Under the Snow"". Although Norwich and its cathedral may"
"a ""historic moment"". ""The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"" is an early work of fiction co-authored by Dickens and Wilkie Collins dealing allegorically with the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Patrick Brantlinger regards it as melodramatic and wildly inaccurate. It appeared in the 1857 Christmas number of ""Household Words"". In ""Perils"" Dickens describes the ""native Sambo"", a paradigm of the Indian mutineers, as a ""double-dyed traitor, and a most infernal villain"" who takes part in a massacre of women and children, in an allusion to the Cawnpore Massacre. Dickens was much incensed by the massacre in which over a hundred English"
"world in general and present-day Britain in particular, but also enjoys disabusing moderns who tend to romanticize the Elizabethan Age. Gordon is especially harsh in his mocking of the political paranoia that infected the United States during the Cold War. Gordon, a Scotsman, does manage to have Gilbert, an Englishman, visit the author’s home town of Buckie on the northeastern coast of Scotland. Fire in the Abyss Fire in the Abyss is a science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, (1983), having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as"
"Cletus' period, where his aide is nearly killed with one. Sonic cannons are also used as weapons. Childe Cycle The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Canadian writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, as the Dorsai people are central to the series. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the"
"Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting based on anti-Catholic feeling. They began with a massive and orderly protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association warned that the law would enable Catholics in the British Army to become a dangerous threat. The protest evolved into riots and widespread looting. Local magistrates were afraid of reprisals and did not issue the riot act. There was no repression until the Army finally moved in and started shooting."
"and the plight of the poor and oppressed. His most important works include ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–39), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (183839)"", A Christmas Carol"" (1843), ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""David Copperfield"" (184950), ""Bleak House"" (185253), ""Little Dorrit"" (185557), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859), and ""Great Expectations"" (186061). There is a gradual trend in his fiction towards darker themes which mirrors a tendency in much of the writing of the 19th century. William Thackeray was Dickens' great rival in the first half of Queen Victoria's reign. With a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his"
"between black men in slavery times. Patrik-Ian Polk has called it 'an all-out masterpiece' and Audre Lorde biographer Alexis De Veaux described it as 'a riveting, masterful work'. It was favourably reviewed in the London Financial Times, which said it was 'a damning indictment of America’s racist history... often deeply moving and gripping'. John R. Gordon John R Gordon (born 1964) is a white gay writer and resident of Shepherds Bush, London, England, whose work - novels, plays, screenplays and biography - centers black characters and explores the complex, subtle and troubling intersections of race, sexuality and class. With Rikki"
"Redgauntlet Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as ""in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels."" It describes the beginnings of a fictional ""third"" Jacobite Rebellion, and includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale"", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer. Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. Darsie's friend Alan Fairford sets out to rescue him. After"
"were attempted, including an epic horse ride to Mount Gambier to summon help. Some ten years later, Gordon wrote a poem ""From the Wreck"", probably inspired by this story, but somehow the popular imagination put Gordon in that saddle, and a number of newspaper articles were written to debunk the myth. On 20 October 1862 he married Margaret Park, then a girl of 17. In March 1864 Gordon bought a cottage, ""Dingley Dell"", near Port MacDonnell, and, in this same year, inspired by six engravings after Noel Paton illustrating ""The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow"", Gordon wrote a poem ""The Feud"","
"prisoners, most of them women and children, were killed, and on 4 October 1857 Dickens wrote in a private letter to Baroness Burdett-Coutts: ""I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India ... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested ... proceeding, with all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the earth."" Lillian Nayder has noted that Dickens collaborator, Wilkie Collins, lacked his hostility to the Indian people, nor faulted them for the mutiny"
"Grahame is also true of Amanda Morgan, and more importantly of the children Alexandra Andrea and Timothy Royce. Amanda Morgan Amanda Morgan is a science fiction novella by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, first published in ""The Spirit of Dorsai"" in 1979 and later included in ""The Dorsai Companion"" in June 1986. The story is set in 2185 on The Dorsai, a key planet and Splinter Culture of Dickson's future history known as the Childe Cycle. ""Amanda Morgan"" is a perspective piece expanding and illuminating the crisis of the novel ""Tactics of Mistake"", in which the planet known as The"
"Childe Cycle The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Canadian writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, as the Dorsai people are central to the series. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families. While, on the face of it, the Childe Cycle is a science fiction"
"Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. ""Hard Times"" is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, ""Hard Times"" has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London."
"in their present opposition to the Chamberlain?"" on April 26, 1776, shortly after Wilkes introduced a parliamentary reform motion in the House of Commons of Great Britain. The Gazetteer reported the results of the debate: The Gordon Riots, anti-Catholic uprisings led by Lord George Gordon in 1780, were certainly a hot topic. The King's Arms Society, for Free and Candid Debate, asked, ""Were the late Riots the effect of Accident or Design?"" on September 7, and, three months later, the Pantheon society debated ""Can the conduct of Lord George Gordon respecting the Protestant Association be construed into High Treason?"" In"
"such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, ""Pharaoh"", to distance themselves from their own time and place to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor. In some historical novels, major historic events take place mostly off-stage, while the fictional characters inhabit the world where those events occur. Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Kidnapped"" recounts mostly private adventures set against the backdrop of the Jacobite troubles in Scotland. Charles Dickens's ""Barnaby Rudge"" is set amid the Gordon Riots, and ""A Tale of Two Cities"" in the French Revolution."
"of all classes. One of his most popular works to this day is ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843). In more recent years Dickens has been most admired for his later novels, such as ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""Great Expectations"" (1860–61), ""Bleak House"" (1852–53) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–57) and ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65). An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray, who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). In that novel he satirizes whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch."
"Amanda Morgan Amanda Morgan is a science fiction novella by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, first published in ""The Spirit of Dorsai"" in 1979 and later included in ""The Dorsai Companion"" in June 1986. The story is set in 2185 on The Dorsai, a key planet and Splinter Culture of Dickson's future history known as the Childe Cycle. ""Amanda Morgan"" is a perspective piece expanding and illuminating the crisis of the novel ""Tactics of Mistake"", in which the planet known as The Dorsai is attacked for the sake of defeating Cletus Grahame. Amanda Morgan, also known as The First Amanda,"
"Dickon (novel) Dickon is a 1929 novel by Marjorie Bowen about King Richard III of England. It was one of many historical fiction works she wrote in her life. The book follows the life of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England. Born in 1452 to Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville, Richard was the eighth and youngest of the couple's children. The story begins in 1460, just after Richard's father, elder brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland and uncle Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury are killed at the Battle of Wakefield. Richard and his brother"
"Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned."
"Battle of Life"" (1846) and ""The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"" (1848); these were secular conversion tales which acknowledged the progressive societal changes of the previous year, and highlighted those social problems which still needed to be addressed. While the public eagerly bought the later books, the reviewers were highly critical of the stories. By 1849 Dickens was engaged with ""David Copperfield"" and had neither the time nor the inclination to produce another Christmas book. He decided the best way to reach his audience with his ""Carol philosophy"" was by public readings. During Christmas 1852 Dickens gave a reading"
"scenes in ""The Pickwick Papers"" are claimed to have been influential in having the Fleet Prison shut down. Karl Marx asserted that Dickens ""issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together"". George Bernard Shaw even remarked that ""Great Expectations"" was more seditious than Marx's ""Das Kapital"". The exceptional popularity of Dickens's novels, even those with socially oppositional themes (""Bleak House"", 1853; ""Little Dorrit"", 1857; ""Our Mutual Friend"", 1865), not only underscored his almost preternatural ability to create compelling storylines and unforgettable characters, but also ensured"
"the French Revolution and the Gordon Riots in London in June 1780. (The Gordon Riots were fomented by Lord George Gordon following the Papists Act 1778, which lifted some restrictions on British Catholics and angered fanatical Protestants.) In 1796 two pupils at MTS, John Grose and Richard Hayward, were expelled for hoisting a French tri-colour flag over the Tower of London and for writing anti-dynastic graffiti on the walls near Suffolk Lane. On 11 April 1811, a pitched battle took place between boys of St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' in Old Change at the western end of Cheapside, as the"
"the car carrying Liberal candidate John Hinds for a meeting at Bethania Chapel, Talog. The Rebecca Riots were the setting for the novel ""Hosts of Rebecca"" by Alexander Cordell. One of the earliest novels about the Rebecca Riots was written by Welsh author Amy Dillwyn, who wrote ""The Rebecca Rioter"", first published in 1880. A more recent novel is ""Children of Rebecca"" by Vivien Annis Bailey, published by Honno (press) in 1995. In 1948 Dylan Thomas wrote the screenplay for a film, ""Rebecca's Daughters"", which was published as a novel of the same name in 1965. The film was not"
"classes, was revolutionary. Some historians argue that this transfer of power achieved in England what the French Revolution achieved eventually in France. The agitation preceding and following the first Reform Act (which Dickens observed at first hand as a shorthand Parliamentary reporter) made many people consider fundamental issues of society and politics. The novel ""Middlemarch"", by Mary Ann Evans (""George Eliot"") is set in the 1830s and mentions the struggle over the Reform Bills, though not as a major topic. Eliot's ""Felix Holt, the Radical"", set in 1832, is a novel explicitly about the Great Reform Act. This extended the"
"Dickens' story provided inspiration for the web comic ""The Adventures of Dorrit Little (""http://dorritlittle.com/) by artist Monica McKelvey Johnson. Online editions Map Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable"
"to the degree that Dickens did. In Collins own work ""A Sermon for the Sepoys"", he preaches to the Indian mutineers from an Indian sacred text, not a Christian one. Collins disassociates himself from Dickens privately expressed desire to exterminate the Indian race, but instead appeals to their capacity for moral goodness. Moreover, Collins' famous novel ""The Moonstone"" suggests that it is really the Indians who were mainly on the defensive during the mutiny, not the British, contrary to the prevalent impression given by the British press. Grace Moore observes that after a similar uprising in Jamaica, Dickens did not"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"Drood (novel) Drood is a novel written by Dan Simmons. The book was initially published on February 1, 2009 by Little, Brown and Company. It is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens' life. The book is a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens' life told from the viewpoint of Dickens' friend and fellow author, Wilkie Collins. The title comes from Dickens' unfinished novel, ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". The novel's complex plot mixes fiction with biographical facts from the lives of Dickens, Collins, and other literary and historical figures of the"