Tomalin, Claire.

Summary: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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Wilson, A. N.

Summary: "Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died--an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Pollack, Pam

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

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Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

Summary: "1851: a year of political unrest and social inequality, industrial progress and artistic innovation, it is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and a home in danger of falling apart. But thisformative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in his life and writing, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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Hornby, Nick

Summary: "From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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Stanley, Diane.

Summary: Follows the life and writing career of the popular nineteenth-century English novelist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1993

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