"alleyways were true to the period. Dickens World was based around the life of author Charles Dickens, briefly a resident of Chatham as a child and who, as an adult, lived at Gad's Hill Place in nearby Higham. Many of the locations and characters in his novels are based on buildings, places and people of the Medway Towns. Holcombe Manor was the inspiration for Dingley Dell, the house in Pickwick Papers, and some of Edwin Drood takes place in Rochester Cathedral. Dickens World is an indoor attraction, centred on a courtyard with facades of buildings related to Dickens, like Warren's"
"literature, notably the village cricket match which forms the centrepiece of A. G. Macdonell's minor classic ""England, Their England"" (1933). Another well-known example comes from the work of Siegfried Sassoon. In 1928, Sassoon, by then a famed war poet, published ""Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man"", the first volume of his George Sherston trilogy. The book, ostensibly a novel, is in effect a lyrical love-letter from the author to his vanished Edwardian childhood, set in the dreamy English countryside. The Butley flower show match is a classic evocation of cricket on the village green. Cricket played a role in the Lord"
"premonition of the signalman's own death. Another story features, in a thinly disguised form, the town of Rugby in Warwickshire and the town's railway station. One of the stories satirizes the refreshment rooms where Dickens was humiliated by the proprietess when he was ordering a cup of coffee. She refused to pass him the sugar bowl until she had been paid, clearly not recognising the celebrity author. Mugby Junction ""Mugby Junction"" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in"
"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,"
"a 2011 play written by former cricketer James Graham-Brown under the pen name, Dougie Blaxland. Blogger Reed dé Buch has written a series of short Biggles spoofs, set in the Iraq War called ""Biggles Over Baghdad"", with titles such as ""Biggles and the Weapons of Mass Destruction"" and ""Biggles and the Undersand Railway"". ""Jiggles and the Test Pilot"", ""Jiggles and the Archaeologists"" and ""Jiggles and the Flying Boats"" are erotic adventures, available as ebooks, pastiching the Biggles books. Veronica Jiggleswick runs Jiggleswick Air with her old school chum Ally, and their mechanic Ginge. Set in the late 1930s, their adventures"
"well with the romantic nostalgia for village cricket during much of the 20th century. In ""Life, the Universe and Everything"" (1982), the third book in Douglas Adams's ""Hitchhiker series"", Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect travel through the space-time continuum to Lord's, where a shocking act of cricket vandalism takes place – the Ashes trophy is stolen by a band of robber-robots from the planet Krikkit. The novel contains an alternative explanation of the genesis of the game – cricket is actually the product of a sort of ""interspecies collective unconscious memory"", and it is the humans who have shamelessly trivialised"
"Whitehead, it turns out, is more interested in cricket. Whitehead takes Reggie along to the match, in time to see Sam get out for a duck. The England cricketers Len Hutton, Denis Compton, Alec Bedser, Godfrey Evans, Jim Laker and Cyril Washbrook appear as themselves with John Arlott providing the match commentary. The writer Terence Rattigan was an excellent cricketer in his school days. He played opening batsman for the Harrow Eleven, often in partnership with Victor Rothschild, and in 1929 he represented Harrow at Lord's in the annual match against Eton College. He originally wrote ""The Final Test"" -"
"The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and finished it by 1 December. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial. Dickens described the novel as ""quiet and domestic [...] innocent and pretty."" It is subdivided into chapters called ""Chirps"", similar to the ""Quarters"""
"a charm."" The second story in the series — titled ""About Cricket"" — featured a father telling his children bedtime stories about cricket. Conan Doyle also composed a poem about cricket — ""A Reminiscence of Cricket"" — that was published in 1922. And in 1928, he produced his largest cricketing work, ""The Story of Spedegue's Dropper,"" in which the protagonists are Walter Scougall and Tom Spedegue, not Holmes and Watson. ""The Field Bazaar"" resurfaced in 1934 when the owner of a copy of the Bazaar Number of ""The Student"", prompted by publicity surrounding the founding in London of the Sherlock"
"The Battle of Life The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five ""Christmas Books"", coming after ""The Cricket on the Hearth"" and followed by ""The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"". The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. ""Battle"" is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes"
"Christmas Carol"", written in 1843, which was followed by ""The Chimes"" in 1844 and ""The Cricket on the Hearth"" in 1845. Of these, ""A Christmas Carol"" was most popular and, tapping into an old tradition, did much to promote a renewed enthusiasm for the joys of Christmas in Britain and America. The seeds for the story became planted in Dickens's mind during a trip to Manchester to witness the conditions of the manufacturing workers there. This, along with scenes he had recently witnessed at the Field Lane Ragged School, caused Dickens to resolve to ""strike a sledge hammer blow"" for"
"1844 Alexandre Dumas, père published a novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (""Les Trois Mousquetaires"") and wrote ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" which was published in installments over the next two years. William Makepeace Thackeray published ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"". In Britain Charles Dickens published several of his books in installments in magazines: ""The Pickwick Papers"", followed, in the next few years, by ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–1839), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–1839), ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1840–1841), ""Barnaby Rudge"" (1841), ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843) and ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1843–1844). In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a ""dime novel"". In"
"a foreigner. Taking to the country and provincial cities, Donald spends his time doing research for a book on the English by consorting with journalists and minor poets, attending a country house weekend, serving as private secretary to a Member of Parliament, attending the League of Nations, and playing village cricket. The village cricket match is the most celebrated episode in the novel, and a reason cited for its enduring appeal. An important character is Mr Hodge, a caricature of Sir John Squire (poet and editor of the ""London Mercury""), while the cricket team described in the book’s most famous"
"jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston works in Rugby, and between 1936-41 based himself at Brownsover Hall on the outskirts, where he designed and developed early prototype engines. Much of his work was carried out at nearby Lutterworth. Holography was invented in Rugby by the Hungarian inventor Dennis Gabor in 1947. In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once important railway junction which was the setting for Charles Dickens's story ""Mugby Junction"". The modern town of Rugby is an amalgamation of the original town with the former villages of Bilton, Hillmorton, Brownsover and Newbold-on-Avon which were incorporated into"
"this case, Middlesex). He visits Lord's three more times during the course of the season (in June for the Test Match against Pakistan, in July, for the oldest fixture, between Eton and Harrow School, and finally in early September for the Gillette Cup final). He also goes to grounds around the country, including Oxfordshire to cover a village championship game and Lichfield for a minor county game. The Best Loved Game was awarded the Cricket Book of the Year award by The Cricket Society in 1979. The Best Loved Game The Best Loved Game is a book written by Geoffrey"
"(known only by the subtitle in the USA) is in large part, an exploration of Sri Lankan cricket. In 2012 the former Derbyshire opening batsman and screenwriter Peter Gibbs wrote a novel, ""Settling the Score"", about a fictional county match late in the 1969 season. New Zealand has produced some cricket fiction (mainly works for children and young people) and two adult novels in Michael O’Leary's ""Out of It"" (1987) and W. J. Foote's ""Poetry in Motion: The Tragic Tale of the Pukemanu Prodigy, New Zealand's Greatest Slow Bowler"" (2003). O’Leary’s cult novella presents a fictionalised one-day match between New"
"Mugby Junction ""Mugby Junction"" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine ""All the Year Round"". Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which ""the Gentleman for Nowhere,"" who has spent his life cloistered in the firm Barbox Brothers & Co., makes use of his new-found freedom in retirement to explore the rail lines that connect with Mugby Junction. Dickens's collaborators each contributed an individual story to the"
"besides the Jersey Eisteddfod) in 1908 and staged it at the Oddfellows' Hall in Saint Helier in December 1908, followed by two public performances in January 1909. The success of these performances persuaded cast and author-director to form a regular company for the production of an annual Dickens stage adaptation: 1909–1910 ""The Chimes""; 1910–1911 ""The Battle of Life""; 1911–1912 ""The Cricket on the Hearth""; 1912–1913 ""The Christmas Carol""; 1913–1914 a revival of ""The Haunted Man""; 1914 ""Scenes from Pickwick""; 1915 ""The Chimes""; 1916 ""Edwin Drood""; 1917 ""The Battle of Life""; 1918 ""The Old Curiosity Shop""; 1919 ""The Cricket on the"
"Cambridge, were originally narrated as Christmas entertainments to friends and selected students. The sixth film, ""The Signalman"", is an adaptation of a story by Charles Dickens published in his magazine ""All the Year Round"" in 1866. In its original context it was one of eight stories set around the fictional Mugby Junction and its branch lines. It was inspired by the Staplehurst rail crash of June 1865, which Dickens himself survived, having attended to dying fellow passengers. He subsequently suffered panic disorders and flashbacks as a result. The final two stories were based on original screenplays, one by Clive Exton,"
"""full of trenchant good sense, humour, anecdote and shrewd observation"". The second book, Arlott wrote, was ""to the best of this reviewer's knowledge, the first cricket book to be initially published in the modern paper-back format"". It was, he added, ""full of good instruction and ... sets down some genuine cricket wisdom with freshness and vitality"". He married Dorothy Everlyn Yabsley in 1943 in Sydney. His son, Russ McCool, who was born in Taunton, played one first-class match for Somerset in 1982, in addition to playing for New South Wales Colts and New South Wales Country. Colin McCool Colin Leslie"
"John Arlott. He wrote: ""It has its darknesses, but it is convincing, and its characters are rounded and credible."" The great humorist P. G. Wodehouse was an avid fan of the game and a dedicated player as well – winning admiration for his medium paced bowling. Cricket is central to the plot of his novel Mike (1909) and its sequels including Psmith in the City (1910), which feature talented cricketer Michael ""Mike"" Jackson and his friend Psmith, also revealed to be a talented player. Wodehouse's cricketing companions included J. M. Barrie, Hugh de Selincourt and Arthur Conan Doyle, playing for"
"domestic setting for his hero's redemption. The book was released on 20 December 1845 (the title page read ""1846"") and sold briskly into the New Year. Seventeen stage productions opened during the Christmas season 1845 with one production receiving Dickens's approval and opening on the same day as the book's release. Dickens read the tale four times in public performance. It has been dramatised in numerous languages and for years was more popular on stage than ""A Christmas Carol"". ""Cricket"" is less explicitly Christian than some of Dickens's other Christmas books, and it has been criticised for its sentimentality, but"
"plot was ""skilfully handled"". Marshall's five books were all historical novels published by D. Appleton & Company. The first four were illustrated by J. Scott Williams. When Saxon yeoman Cedric of Pellham Woods saves the life of Norman nobleman Dickon Mountjoy, he is made a squire, and a friendship begins between the two. Eventually Cedric becomes the best crossbowman in England, and is knighted. He then becomes instrumental in the establishment of the Magna Carta. The frequency of deaths in ""Cedric the Forester"" sometimes drew criticism. In 1922 Marshall was one runner-up for the inaugural Newbery Medal from the professional"
"cycle, as did Eleanor Hull for younger readers in ""The Boys' Cuchulain"" (1904). William Butler Yeats wrote a series of plays – ""On Baile's Strand"" (1904), ""Deirdre"" (1907), ""The Green Helmet"" (1910), ""At the Hawk's Well"" (1917), ""The Only Jealousy of Emer"" (1919) and ""The Death of Cuchulain"" (1939) – and a poem, ""Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"" (1892), based on the legends, and completed the late John Millington Synge's unfinished play ""Deirdre of the Sorrows"" (1910), in collaboration with Synge's widow Molly Allgood. More recent literary adaptations include Rosemary Sutcliff's children's novel ""The Hound of Ulster"" (1963), Patricia Finney's"
"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"
"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."
"Pinch from ""Martin Chuzzlewit""; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in ""The Chimes""; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in ""The Cricket on the Hearth"". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused"
"best known for his book ""Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World"" which has been described as ""indispensable"" but also as ""spikily controversial and vigorously wide-ranging"". In John Arlott's review of the book for ""Wisden"", he commented that it was ""unique in my experience as a major work on cricket written from a wide view, in disapproval of the game's establishment and in expectation of the demise of the first-class game"". Rowland Bowen Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978 at Buckfastleigh, Devon) was a cricket researcher, historian and writer. Educated at"
"a bowling green and cricket ground. In 1867, Whalley hosted the first Roses Match between Lancashire County Cricket Club and Yorkshire County Cricket Club at Station Road. Whalley Pickwick Night (named after the Charles Dickens novel ""The Pickwick Papers"") is an event in December of each year with people in Victorian costume to raise funds for charity. The first event was in the 1980s as a late night (6pm–9 pm) Christmas shopping event, and in more recent years has since expanded with stalls, indoor events and a religious service. The town participates with the adjacent village of Billington in ""Billington"
"as ""esteemed the best in the respective counties"" but it does not name the players. The Sussex three won the match. This is the first and only reference to Mickleham in association with cricket of a senior level. Mickleham is mentioned in Jane Austen's novel ""Emma"" (1815). The philosopher and amateur botanist John Stuart Mill protested against the building of a railway though the ""beautiful valley of Mickleham"" in 1836. The village has featured prominently in cycling, following the loops of Box Hill adopted by various versions of the London-Surrey Cycle Classic which has acquired a federation of European cycling"
"Marriage"", came out in 1907 - but after World War I broke out, his literary output took on a more serious note. As war ended in 1918, his writings too resumed their former gaiety, in novels such as ""Young Mischief"" and ""Young 'Un"". In 1924, ""The Cricket Match"" was published. This novel stands alongside A. G. Macdonell's ""England, Their England"" as one of the classic accounts of village cricket in English literature. The fictional village of Tillingfold was a recurring element in de Selincourt's work, and was based on his own village of Storrington at the foot of the South"
"feature of the work is the generally accurate description of the old coaching inns of England. (One of the main families running the Bristol to Bath coaches at the time was started by Eleazer Pickwick). Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous memorable characters. Each character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", as in many other Dickens novels, is drawn comically, often with exaggerated personality traits. Alfred Jingle, who joins the cast in chapter two, provides an aura of comic villainy, with his devious tricks repeatedly landing the Pickwickians into trouble. These include a nearly successful attempted elopement"
"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"