Which of Dickens' novels is set at the time of the Gordon Riots?
"in 2014, and cast an actor with Down's Syndrome, Daniel Laurie, in the title role. Online editions Commentary Barnaby Rudge Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was one of two novels (the other was ""The Old Curiosity Shop"") that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". ""Barnaby Rudge"" is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was the fifth of Dickens' novels to be published. It had originally been planned to appear as his"
"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"
"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."
"set against the backdrop of an American mission trip. At times a romance, at times a kidnap thriller, but always a work of global social consciousness, it explores the potential for humanitarian aid to the world's poorest heart of darkness. His ""Two Cities"" (2017) is a bi-coastal political eco-thriller set in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Before, during, and after the biggest protest march in modern history, two brothers must fight to put the world back together. As the title signals, this novel poses the literary question: """"""What would Dickens's ""A Tale of Two Cities"" read like if written in"
"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"
"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"
"A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted"
"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."
"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"
"their relations with industrialists, focusing more on the thinking and perspective of the employers. ""Shirley"" (1849), Charlotte Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"", is also a social novel. Set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the action in ""Shirley"" takes place against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. Social problems are also an important concern in the novels of Charles Dickens, including in particular poverty and the unhealthy living conditions associated with it, the exploitation of ordinary people by money"
"historical novels – ""The Junkers"" (1968), ""Polonaise"" (1976), ""The Free Frenchman"" (1986), are set in Continental Europe around World War II; and ""Alice in Exile"" (2001) in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution . Read’s contemporaneous novels – ""A Married Man"" (1979), ""A Season in the West"" (1988), and ""The Misogynist"" (2010) - are ironic critiques of the manners and morals of the English upper-middle classes. There are elements of the thriller in ""The Villa Golitsyn"" (1981), ""On the Third Day"" (1990), ""A Patriot in Berlin"" (1995), ""Knights of the Cross"" (1997) and ""The Death of a Pope"""
"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"
"Dissident Gardens Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement, and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and in Greenwich Village. The title is an obvious play on ""Sunnyside Gardens"". Later, a character in East Germany writes to his American daughter, describing his workplace: The novel is divided into four parts, and each part is divided into four chapters. Each chapter tells its own coherent narrative, but the years, settings, and points of view of"
"lenders, the corruption and incompetence of the legal system, as well as of the administration of the Poor Law. Dickens was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that, ""Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."" Dickens's second novel, ""Oliver Twist"" (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it destroyed middle class polemics about criminals, making any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed impossible. Charles Dickens's ""Hard Times"" (1854) is set in"
"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"
"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."
"Tavistock House Tavistock House was the London home of the noted British author Charles Dickens and his family from 1851 to 1860. At Tavistock House Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"", ""Hard Times"", ""Little Dorrit"" and ""A Tale of Two Cities"". He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's ""Life of Charles Dickens"". Later, it was the home of William and Georgina Weldon, whose lodger was the French composer Charles Gounod, who composed part of his opera ""Polyeucte"" at the house. Tavistock House was demolished in 1901. Tavistock House was built by builder and developer James Burton,"
"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"
"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"
"novels and contemporary issues. ""Bows Against the Barons"" was translated into Russian and sold immensely well there; his next work, ""Comrades for the Charter"" was less successful but ""Cue for Treason"" in 1940 proved enduringly popular and remains his best known work. His subjects cover a wide range of historical periods, such as ""The Crown of Violet,"" set in Ancient Greece, ""The Red Towers of Granada,"" Middle Ages, ""The Hills of Varna,"" Renaissance Europe, ""Cue for Treason"" and ""Cloak for a Spy,"" Elizabethan England, ""Fire on the Wind"" and ""Popinjay Stairs,"" Restoration London, ""Thunder of Valmy,"" French Revolution, ""The White"
"""Clock"" from February to November 1841. It was Dickens' first historical novel. His only other is the much later ""A Tale of Two Cities"", also set in revolutionary times. It is one of his less popular novels and has rarely been adapted for film or television. The last production was a 1960 BBC production; prior to that, silent films were made in 1911 and 1915. Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies. One"
"of ""The Chimes"" or the ""Staves"" of ""A Christmas Carol"". It is the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, preceded by ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843) and ""The Chimes"" (1844), and followed by ""The Battle of Life"" (1846) and ""The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"" (1848). In July 1845, Dickens contemplated forming a periodical focusing on the concerns of the home. It was to be called ""The Cricket"", but the plan fell through, and he transformed his idea into a Christmas book in which he abandoned social criticism, current events, and topical themes in favour of simple fantasy and a"
"The Insolvent Debtors Act 1842 allowed non-traders to begin bankruptcy proceedings for relief from debts. However, conditions remained an object of social disapprobation. The novelist Charles Dickens, whose own father had been imprisoned at Marshalsea while he was a child, pilloried the complexity and injustice through his books, especially ""David Copperfield"" (1850), ""Hard Times"" (1854) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1857). Around this very time reform began. The difficulties for individuals to be discharged from debt in bankruptcy proceedings and the awfulness of debtors prison made the introduction of modern companies legislation, and general availability of limited liability, all the more urgent."
"Thackeray and Charles Dickens (in 1863 and 1870, respectively), Eliot was ""generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist"" at the time of the novel's final publication. ""Middlemarch"" is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate."
"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,"
"Insurrection (O'Flaherty novel) Insurrection is a 1950 novel by the Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. The story takes place during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. It was O’Flaherty’s final novel. The novel follows a diverse group of characters who are caught up in the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. The group are dispatched to defend the main road from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire (Dublin’s main port) from the expected arrival of British reinforcements. The novel explores each man’s motivations, fears and hopes through the battles and violence which ensue. The principal characters are: The uneducated, slow-witted"
"like Charles Dickens's ""Hard Times"" and Henry Green's ""Living"". Walter Greenwood's ""Love on the Dole"" (1933) has been described as an ""excellent example"" of an English proletarian novel It was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally. It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford, where Greenwood was born and brought up. The novel begins around the time of the General Strike of 1926, but its main action takes place in 1931. The young adult problem novel deals with an adolescent's first confrontation"
"autumn of 1851, Charles Dickens obtained the lease on Tavistock House from his friend and fellow Shakespeare Society member, the artist Frank Stone. In 1851 Dickens, with his young family, moved into the western section of the by now divided Tavistock House. His first published story, ""A Dinner at Poplar Walk"" (1833) (later re-titled ""Mr. Minns and His Cousin"") is set in Tavistock House. Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"" (1852-3), ""Hard Times"" (1854), ""Little Dorrit"" (1855-7), and ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859) at Tavistock House. He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's ""Life of"
"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"
"the poor and condemned the public officials and institutions that not only allowed such abuses to exist, but flourished as a result. His most strident indictment of this condition is in ""Hard Times"" (1854), Dickens's only novel-length treatment of the industrial working class. In this work, he uses vitriol and satire to illustrate how this marginalised social stratum was termed ""Hands"" by the factory owners; that is, not really ""people"" but rather only appendages of the machines they operated. His writings inspired others, in particular journalists and political figures, to address such problems of class oppression. For example, the prison"
"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"
"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"
"takes place in the novel, with its accompanying scenes of violence, appears to be based on the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, also known as the '""great transport workers' strike"", which involved dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well people from other trades. This paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of that summer. The editors of the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of ""The Furys"", and some critics, confuse the strike that occurs in the novel with the 1926 General Strike. The third novel in the series, ""Our Time is Gone"", is set during World War I. At the centre of the"