"is possible for even the most degraded characters. Lord Acton considered the portrayal of Charley and Nancy to indicate that ""Oliver Twist"" was a much more profound work than Dickens' earlier novel ""The Pickwick Papers"". He wrote that ""Nancy's refusal to be delivered from Sikes after her love for the child had brought her a chance of redemption and Charley Bates turning against the murderer are surely in a higher style than anything in Pickwick"". It was Dickens' friend John Forster who persuaded him to show Charley finally escaping a life of crime. Charley Bates Charley Bates is a supporting"
"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 Dickens to miss the publication dates for two novels: ""The Pickwick Papers"" and ""Oliver Twist"". Hogarth later became the inspiration for a number of characters in Dickens novels, including Rose Maylie in ""Oliver Twist"" and Little Nell in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". Charles and Catherine"
"of Aunt Dot is based on Rose Macaulay's friend Dorothy L. Sayers, and that Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg has elements of Frs. Patrick McLaughlin, Gilbert Shaw and Gerard Irvine. The book was described in ""The New York Times"": ""Fantasy, farce, high comedy, lively travel material, delicious japes at many aspects of the frenzied modern world, and a succession of illuminating thoughts about love, sex, life, organized churches and religion are all tossed together with enchanting results."" The Towers of Trebizond The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay (1881–1958). Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels,"
"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"
"colonial India and Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Also set in the 1920s, this series centers on Laetitia Talbot, an archaeologist-turned-detective. Barbara Cleverly Barbara Cleverly is a British author born in Yorkshire and a former teacher. She graduated from Durham University and now works in Cambridgeshire. She is known for her ""Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery"" series, of which she has written thirteen books, and her ""Laetitia Talbot Mystery"" series. Shortlisted in 1999, Cleverly received the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2004. ""The Last Kashmiri Rose"" was a ""New York Times Notable Book"". She currently lives"
"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,"
"The third novel in the series, ""The Wild Rose"", which explores Willa and Seamie's story, follows the characters from London on the verge of World War I to Arabia in 1918. Her second novel, ""A Northern Light"", is Donnelly's biggest success to date. It is based on the infamous murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the Adirondack Mountains in 1906 - which had been the basis for Theodore Dreiser's epic ""An American Tragedy"" and its adaptation, the 1951 film ""A Place in the Sun"". In 2004, ""A Northern Light"" won the Carnegie Medal for children's and young-adult books"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of ""The Pickwick Papers"", Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the ""Evening Chronicle"". They were married in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, London. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent, the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn. The first of their ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a"
"Old Rose and Silver Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes in the impossible. Through the limited ""wide-scope"" descriptions the reader is not"
"The Tea Rose The Tea Rose is a historical fiction novel by Jennifer Donnelly. It is the first book of a trilogy about London's East End at the turn of the 19th century. It was first published October 1, 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. In London in 1888, 17-year-old Fiona Finnegan, daughter of Irish immigrants Paddy and Kate, works under William Burton, owner and founder of Burton Tea. Paddy works as a docker in Whitechapel and is later called upon to lead the dockers to support labour unions. Fiona and her childhood sweetheart, Joe"
"the eyes of Grace Plantagenet, an illegitimate daughter of King Edward IV. Her fourth novel, ""Queen by Right,"" concerns the life of Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Anne Easter Smith Anne Easter Smith is an English-American historical novelist. She is the aunt of England rugby No. 8, Nick Easter. Her novels are set during the Wars of the Roses, the period during which two branches of the House of Plantagenet, the Houses of York and Lancaster, were in contention for the throne of England. Easter Smith's first novel, ""A Rose for the Crown"", has as its"
"Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of Medway and Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham Dockyard. The house then became home to five generations of his family. In 1687, the"
"book, ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". It is thought that Charles Dickens visited Tong church when his grandmother worked at Tong Castle. The Castle (demolished in 1954) stood to the south; its site is now occupied by the M54 motorway. The 'grave' is thought to have come about because Charles Dickens' novel was serialised and shipped over to America, and as a result, Americans began coming over to England to visit scenes featured in the book. The tourists recognised the references to Tong church from the book and came to view the supposed 'grave', which of course was not there. However,"
"practice at the time. Charles, then 12 years old, boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, at 112 College Place, Camden Town. Roylance was ""a reduced [impoverished] old lady, long known to our family"", whom Dickens later immortalised, ""with a few alterations and embellishments"", as ""Mrs. Pipchin"" in ""Dombey and Son"". Later, he lived in a back-attic in the house of an agent for the Insolvent Court, Archibald Russell, ""a fat, good-natured, kind old gentleman... with a quiet old wife"" and lame son, in Lant Street in Southwark. They provided the inspiration for the Garlands in ""The Old Curiosity Shop""."
"author who studied Dickens, believed that Dickens wanted to ""give the story a different ending."" Hogarth is also seen as the inspiration for Little Nell in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". Nell had many traits that Dickens associated to Howarth, including describing Nell as ""young, beautiful and good"", and Nell also dies suddenly in the book. Other characters believed to have been inspired by Mary include Kate Nickleby, the 17-year-old sister of the hero of the novel ""Nicholas Nickleby""; Agnes Wickfield, the heroine in ""David Copperfield"" (her character was a mixture of both Mary and Georgina, another of Dickens' sister-in-laws); Ruth"
"Lane to St Chad's Lane and northward"". In the 1920s, Sir Guy Dawber designed the gardens, annexe building and cottage of the property. Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of"
"David Duncan); neighbor Ruth Rose; and best friend Josh. The plot involves three amateur detectives Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose who come across a mystery when they begin to suspect that a famous mystery writer named Wallis Wallace was kidnapped when he did not show up for a book-signing. ""The Bald Bandit"" was written in 1997 and is the second book in the series, following the adventures of three junior detectives, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. When the Green Lawn Bank is robbed and when a Detective Ready knocks on Dink's door asking for help, the trio is on the"
"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"
"There Were None"" (from ""Ten Little Indians""), ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" (from ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe""), ""Five Little Pigs"" (from ""This Little Piggy""), ""Crooked House"" (from ""There Was a Crooked Man""), ""A Pocket Full of Rye"" (from ""Sing a Song of Sixpence""), ""Hickory Dickory Dock"" (from ""Hickory Dickory Dock""), and ""Three Blind Mice"" (from ""Three Blind Mice""). Similarly, the novel Mrs McGinty's Dead is named after a children's game that is explained in the course of the novel. Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when"
"1720) and fiction that relies heavily on historic events (one review stated it was hard to tell where history leaves off and apocrypha begins). His most popular novel was ""The Black Rose"" (1945), centred in the time and actions of Bayan of the Baarin also known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes. Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl. The book was a selection of the Literary Guild with"
"the series as Tom Branson the chauffeur but falls in love with Lady Sybil, marries her and becomes the agent for the estate. Joining the cast in series three is Lily James as the Lady Rose MacClare (Aldridge), a second cousin through Violet's family, who is sent to live with the Crawleys because her parents are serving the empire in India and, later, remains there because of family problems. David Robb portrays Dr. Richard Clarkson, the local town doctor. Other suitors for Lady Mary's affections during the series include Tom Cullen as Lord Gillingham, Julian Ovenden as Charles Blake, and"
"Rose (novel) Rose is a novel by Martin Cruz Smith published in 1996. The story is set in 1872 Wigan, Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines. Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer, returns from Africa's Gold Coast and, on finding his native England utterly depressing, falls into melancholy and alcoholism. Blair wishes desperately to return to Africa, so, in exchange, he agrees to investigate the disappearance of a local curate engaged to marry the daughter of Blair's patron. With the unexpected assistance of Rose, a Wigan 'pit brow girl', Blair solves the mystery and, in the process, finds himself"
"on Rose's father, Mr Grant, who encourages him to make acquaintance with a young widow. When he does, he is astonished at the uncanny resemblance between the woman, whose name is Nancy Whitmore, and Rose. He discovers that Nancy is the illegitimate daughter of Mr Grant, who sent Charley to her thinking he might console her for the death of her husband, an RAF pilot killed in action. The rest of the novel describes the complex and troubled relation between Charley and Nancy, as it unfolds against the background of a war-torn Britain. Green had his own opinion of what"
"Charles Dickens, Soho Square is where Lucie and her father, Doctor Manette, reside. It is believed that their house is modelled on the House of St Barnabas which Dickens used to visit, and it is for this reason that the street running behind the House from Greek Street is called Manette Street (it was formerly Rose Street). In the song ""Why Can't The English?"" from the musical ""My Fair Lady"", Professor Henry Higgins laments, ""Hear them down in Soho Square/Dropping H's everywhere."" In the novel ""Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"" by Susanna Clarke, the eponymous Jonathan Strange and his wife"
"which implied a connection between the demagoguery surrounding the Methodists and Pittites. The print enraged Bishop William Warburton, who although a vocal critic of Methodism, wrote: The 19th-century author Charles Dickens—whose childhood nursemaid Mary Weller may have affected him with a fascination for ghosts—made reference to the Cock Lane ghost in several of his books. One of ""Nicholas Nickleby""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> main characters and a source of much of the novel's comic relief, Mrs. Nickleby, claims that her great-grandfather ""went to school with the Cock-lane Ghost"" and that ""I know the master of his school was a Dissenter, and that would in"
"Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel. The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. ""Nicholas Nickleby"" is Charles Dickens's third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with ""The Pickwick Papers"". The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. The"
"The Crimson Patch The Crimson Patch, first published in 1936, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the ""Codfish Sherlock"". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Myles Witherall, retired New Englander, decides on a whim to take an inexpensive tourist bus to the little town of Skaket, and thereby gets involved in the movements of an escaped killer. Meanwhile, a young married couple of artistic antecedents find that Skaket's inhabitants have turned violently against them, just before they find the body of Rosalie Ray, radio"
"as well. As a human being as well as an (ad hoc) investigator, Jonathan Blair does bear more than a passing resemblance to the Russian Chief Investigator found in the sprawling series of seven ""Arkady Renko"" novels also penned by Martin Cruz Smith. He stubbornly avoids taking the easy way out and repeatedly risks life and limb in the process. The book has been translated into Rose (novel) Rose is a novel by Martin Cruz Smith published in 1996. The story is set in 1872 Wigan, Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines. Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer, returns"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"and Tom begin a friendship, though Robert (Lord Grantham) despises her due to her openly vocal anti-aristocracy views. In the final Christmas special, Sampson, a card sharp, steals a letter from the Prince of Wales to his mistress, Rose's friend Freda Ward, which, if made public, would create a scandal; the entire Crawley family connives to retrieve it, though it is Bates who extracts the letter from Sampson's overcoat, and it is returned to Mrs Ward. In series five, covering the year 1924, a Russian exile, Prince Kuragin, wishes to renew his past affections for the Dowager Countess. Violet instead"