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Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (–)
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February – 9 June ) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, bygd the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.[2][3]
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 year
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THE CHARLES DICKENS HISTORIC PUB WALK
THE INNS AND TAVERNS OF DICKENS LONDON
Join Richard Jones for an evening stroll around some of London's most historic pubs as you follow in the footsteps of Charles Dickens through the old streets and hidden courtyards that have changed very little since his day. Indeed, were Dickens to return today, he would most certainly recognise these ancient inns and historic taverns and would feel right at home in them!
A MAGICAL JOURNEY BACK IN TIME
This hugely enjoyable walking tour explores a veritable maze of hidden thoroughfares into which the advances of modern London have yet to penetrate. The pubs that hide away in these timeless backwaters are, likewise, stranded in the past.
Loud music, fruit machines and the ubiquitous TV sports channels are about as welcome in these old places as Bill Sikes in a Victorian orphanage!
The only sound you will hear when you cross their thresholds is the murmur of conversation as people exchange stori
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Letter from a London Pub
All photos taken by the author.
Things are getting downright Dickensian in England. Amid a cost of living crisis, shoplifting, especially in grocery and convenience stores, has more than doubled in the past three years, reaching £8 million in Doctors, teachers, rail employees and other unions are finishing up their second year of regular strikes, keeping us all wondering if we will be able to get from A to B on time — or treated at a local surgery. The Tory government just scrapped a major rail connection from Birmingham to Manchester, proclaiming that money for this “leveling up” proposal was better spent elsewhere, perhaps on projects where the kickbacks are better for the six-figured salaried MPs.
Most places in London — or insert another major metropolitan city here — there is a new Tesla, or Bentley or chauffered Mercedes parked around the corner from someone on a corner begging for food or money for a place to stay, often with a pe