Dickens and Travel

Dickens and Travel
Author: Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-07-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1526735660

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From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.

Dickens and Travel

Dickens and Travel
Author: Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2022-07-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1526735644

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From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.

The Norton Book of Travel

The Norton Book of Travel
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1987
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780393024814

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Collects writings from world travelers--including Marco Polo, Darwin, Kerouac, Naipaul, and Theroux--that reflect the changes in attitude and feasibility that have shaped travelers aims and perceptions

Dickens and Christmas

Dickens and Christmas
Author: Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1526712288

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A direct descendant of Charles Dickens delves into the many merry ways in which the author of A Christmas Carol celebrated & influenced the holiday. Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today—and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically “to strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man’s child,” and it began the Victorian’s obsession with Christmas. This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickens’s most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas. It takes the readers through the seasonal short stories he wrote, for both adults and children, includes much-loved festive excerpts from his novels, uses contemporary newspaper clippings, and looks at Christmas writings by Dickens’s contemporaries. To give an even more personal insight, readers can discover how the Dickens family itself celebrated Christmas, through the eyes of Dickens’s unfinished autobiography, family letters, and his children’s memoirs. Dickens and Christmas also explores the ways in which his works have gone on to influence how the festive season is celebrated around the globe. “Brilliant . . . a very readable book, a slice of social history involving a man who, more than anyone, encapsulates Christmas in literature.”—Books Monthly

Charles Dickens on Travel

Charles Dickens on Travel
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: England
ISBN: 9781843916123

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ESSAYS, JOURNALS, LETTERS & OTHER PROSE WORKS. So Dickens introduced his reader to his writings on Italy. As a popular author, Dickens sought to acquaint his readers with extraordinary and alien topics, be they of human interaction or foreign climes. His travels took him to Italy, America, France, Switzerland, and extensively within the United Kingdom. This volume presents a variety of key excerpts and essays written by Dickens on the virtues and follies of travel, and the wondrous diversity to be found by journeying within England. As a writer who strongly believed in tangible locations and thorough knowledge of fictional surroundings, Dickens' thoughts on travel provide an insight into the landscape of his novels.

American Notes

American Notes
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 219
Release: 1972
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 3849676153

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Since the voyage of Columbus in search of the New World, and of Raleigh in quest of El Dorado, no visit to America has excited so much interest and conjecture as that of the author of "Oliver Twist." . . . In the mean time the book, however disconcerting to those persons who had looked for something quite different, will bring no disappointment to such as can be luxuriously content with good sense, good feeling, good fun, and good writing. The information, with few exceptions, might be gained much more advantageously from the map and gazetteer. The perusal of them has served chiefly to lower our estimate of the man, and to fill us with contempt for such a compound of egotism, coxcombry, and cockneyism. . . . We have never read a book, professing to give an account of any country, which, in respect to its natural features, its towns and cities, its manners and customs, its social, civil, and religious institutions—in short, in respect to everything about which the reader wishes to receive information, or at least to ascertain the opinions of the author, is so profoundly silent as the book before us.

A Guide to Dickens' London

A Guide to Dickens' London
Author: Daniel Tyler
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary landmarks
ISBN: 9781843913528

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To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a generously illustrated guide to the city that was perhaps the greatest of his characters From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, this guide traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain's best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring more than 40 sites—places of worship and of business, streets and bridges—this comprehensive companion not only locates and illustrates locations from works such as Great Expectations and Little Dorrit but demonstrates how the architecture and landscape of the city influenced Dickens' work throughout his life. Each site is illustrated with substantial quotations from Dickens' own writing about the city he loved.

Dickens on France

Dickens on France
Author: John Edmondson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Bringing together short stories, extracts from novels, and travel writing, this volumes journalistic highlights include accounts of a train journey from London to Paris, a rough Channel crossing, the pleasures of Boulogne, and Parisian life in the 1850s and 1860s. Illustrations & map.

Charles Dickens' Favorite Daughter

Charles Dickens' Favorite Daughter
Author: Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher: Lyons Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780762785216

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As the daughter of the most famous writer of the time, Katey Dickens enjoyed a high profile in Victorian society. She pursued her love of painting, acted in her father’s plays, socialized with the Thackerays, and modeled for painter John Everett Millais. This riveting biography finally sheds light on her extraordinary life both as a Dickens and an artist. The turbulent family life in the Dickens household drove Katey to marry young. Her first husband was the chronically ailing Charlie Collins, brother of the famous author Wilkie Collins. After Charlie’s untimely demise, the widowed Katey fell in love and married the handsome Italian artist Carlo Perugini. Charles Dickens lovingly nicknamed Katey “Lucifer Box” because of her fiery temper. In many ways, Katey was ahead of her time; she refused to be eclipsed by her father and fought to establish herself as an artist. She became renowned as a portrait painter and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. Katey lived to be almost ninety and her artistic prestige, which flourished during her lifetime, still persists to this day.

Byron's Romantic Celebrity

Byron's Romantic Celebrity
Author: T. Mole
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230288383

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This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture. It investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.