Charles Weldon Cannon (1915–1997), a Dickens County native, made his famous boots and saddles in Dickens.
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Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was the sixth child and fourth son of British novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.
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Alfred Dickens then moved to Melbourne, where he was persuaded by his younger brother Edward Dickens to start up their own stock and station agency, 'EBL Dickens and Partners'.
Ivy Dickens (Kaylee DeFer): Ivy AKA Charlie is trying hard to conceal the truth from her family.
One month after the launch, Dickens won a lawsuit in the Court of Chancery against his former publisher Bradbury and Evans, giving him back the trade name of his previous journal.
It starred Nicholas (Chuck), Colette Bablon (Judy), Susan Kaslow (Zenia), Charles Dickens (Roger Masters), Victoria Camargo (Celia Lathrop), M. Emmet Walsh (T.J. Lathrop), Peter von Mayrhauser (Edgars), Elizabeth Franz (Ernestine Wintergreen), Barbara Greacen (Sally VanViller), Anthony Dingman (Carter Forstman), Nick Masi Jr. (Jack Regent), and Fred Carmichael (Hannibal Hix).
Bleak House in Broadstairs, on the far northeast tip of Kent adjoining Margate, is where Dickens stayed with his family for at least one month every summer, from 1839 until 1851, when he was becoming established as a successful writer.
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Harold Bloom, in his book The Western Canon, considers Bleak House to be Dickens's greatest novel.
Bronkhorst is known for its picturesque buildings, and houses a museum dedicated to Charles Dickens which also contains items purchased from the former Dickens museum at Rochester.
Catherine Dickens was the subject of the sixty minute BBC Two documentary Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas, broadcast on 30 December 2011 and performed and presented by Sue Perkins, and which looked at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of Catherine.
A new addition to the household was Dickens' younger brother Frederick.
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This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of the characters he had created.
The make-up of Alec Guinness, who portrayed Fagin, was based on George Cruikshank's original illustrations of the Dickens masterpiece, and it was considered anti-semitic by some as it was felt to perpetrate Jewish racial stereotypes.
In the novel Velocity by Dean Koontz, the comatose wife of the main protagonist often makes incoherent references to the works of Dickens, the 'most mysterious' coming from Dombey and Son, "I want to know what it says, the sea. What it is that it keeps on saying."
One night, the ghost of her partner, Jake Marley (counterpart to Dickens' Jacob Marley character, played here by Jeffrey DeMunn), haunts her.
The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives, including Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat named Malcolm (or according to Mad Uncle Jack, Sally).
Edward 'Plorn' Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton — nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford, "It was a dark and stormy night" — and educated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent at a private school owned by the Reverend W. C Sawyer, later Anglican bishop of Armidale and Grafton.
Elijah Dickens Mushemeza (born February 26, 1964 in the Sheema District, Western Uganda) is an academic, author and a practical politician.
Concerned about his father's financial problems, in 1839 Charles Dickens rented a cottage for his parents far from London, and, as he thought, far from temptation, at Alphington in Devon.
Fagin, a fictional antisemitic character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
He was the father of the painter Marcus Stone who illustrated many works by Charles Dickens (the Stones were Dickens' neighbours for many years) and himself produced a frontispiece for an edition of Martin Chuzzlewit.
Gamp is a colloquial, primarily British, term for an umbrella, after the Dickens' character Mrs Sairey Gamp.
Mr Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious headmaster in Dickens's novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise.
At the Olympic Theatre later in 1869, she was Martha in Little Em'ly by Andrew Halliday, based on Dickens's David Copperfield.
Dickens later based the character of Hortense in Bleak House on Maria Manning, while Mrs Chivery's tobacco shop in Little Dorrit is located on Horsemonger Lane.
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster is an American sitcom that ran on ABC during the 1962-63 season (co-sponsored by Procter & Gamble and Consolidated Cigar's El Producto), and was created and produced by Leonard Stern, filmed at Desilu.
Joseph Clayton Clarke (1856–1937), British artist best known for his illustrations of the characters from the novels of Charles Dickens
Two of his close friends were Holman Hunt the artist and Dickens who would join Egg at his summer retreat, Hunt coming over from his home in Fairlight and Dickens down from London.
The engraving, entitled Houseless and Hungry, was seen by John Everett Millais who brought it to the attention of Charles Dickens, who was so impressed he immediately commissioned Fildes to illustrate The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Wilkins Micawber, a character in David Copperfield, a novel by Charles Dickens
Dickens reportedly misheard this as an instruction as to the name which she should include in the inscription ("Emma Chisit") and thus was born the phenomenon of "Strine" which filled the newspaper's letter columns and subsequently was the subject of a separate weekly article and, later, a series of humorous books.
The Henry P. Glass House, built in 1948, is located on Dickens St. and is arguably the first passive solar home in America.
The walls were lined with popular fiction and non-fiction; Greek and Roman classics; beautifully bound volumes from the 19th Century; complete sets of Shakespeare, Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Peggy Dickens (born 8 December 1975 in Schiltigheim) is a French slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.
It is believed that the Thellusson Will case provided the basis for the fictional case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.
Ardagh once described the Snicket books as being more an homage to Edgar Allan Poe, while his own Eddie Dickens books were an homage to Charles Dickens.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is described as a romantic realist in Donald Fanger's book, Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol.
The character was based upon a real nurse described to Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Satis House, a fictional estate in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations
The Death of Poor Joe the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character.
Nick Bass, who has worked with international stars like Usher and Justin Timberlake, choreographed the dance for "Sorry, Sorry" with assistant staff Trent Dickens, showing the single's strong musical prominence.
Charles Weldon Cannon, a well-known maker of boots and saddles, lived in Spur from 1949–1964, when he relocated to Dickens.
In 1856 Dickens bought Gads Hill Place in Kent, but he did not sell the lease for Tavistock House until August 1860, after his daughter Kate Dickens' marriage.
Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health.
Dickens himself visited New York in the early forties and wrote the Book "American Notes".
Bill Sikes, a fictional character in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
In 2003 a CD was published with Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" read by Wolfgang Thierse.
What the Dickens, a minced oath, with 'Dickens' standing for devil
The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol.