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Dickens probably scheduled . . . Railway Schedules of the London & Birmingham, 1843
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John Meggott Elwes . . . Topham, Edward, The Life of the Late John Elwes, Esquire, Paraclete Potter (Poughkeepsie, NY) 1790
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Newman’s Court is off the . . . Hoole, Ivor, “A guide to the alleys, courts, passages, and yards of central London” http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/london-alleys/
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“into an uncarpeted and . . . Johnson Vol. 1
“The Doughty Street home . . . Johnson Vol. 1
“mahogany doors, bookshelves . . . Tomalin
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“Bayham Street was about the . . . Forster
“The housing was uninspiring . . . Tyler
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“To be sure the Cratchits . . . Nissenbaum, Stephen, The Battle for Christmas, Vintage Books (New York, NY) 1996
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“These tended to be . . . Sanders
“Cities fostered new breeds . . . Amato, Anthony, On Foot: A History of Walking, New York University Press (New York, NY) 2004
“[The] core was the old . . . Poole, Daniel, What Jane Austen Ate and What Charles Dickens Knew, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY) 1993
“In Jane Austen’s day . . . Poole
“a private gentleman and . . . Ackroyd
“Dickens’s walks served him . . . Noden
“But Dickens’s walks played . . . Noden
“If I could not walk far . . . Noden
“Legend holds that it was . . . Jones
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There was a marked difference . . . MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne, Dickens: A Life, Oxford University Press (New York, NY) 1979
“dragged by the hair of my head . . . Ackroyd
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“On an ordinary day, he . . . Currey
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“As with every other . . . Hearn
“every encouragement in his power . . . Langton, Robert, The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, Cornell University Library (Ithaca, NY) 2012
Students at Mr. Giles’ school were . . . Langton
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“Those who seek reasons . . . Ackroyd
“in the days when there . . . Langton
“When we were only babies . . . Dickens, Mamie, My Father, As I Recall Him, Roxburghe Press (Westminster, England) 1896
“No one can imagine . . . Dickens, Mamie
“The relationship between the . . . Nissenbaum
“Hogarth . . . had a large and still . . . Tomalin
“He (Dickens) saw in her . . . Tomalin
“I am writing by candle-light . . . Ackroyd
“All the whilehe was trying . . . MacKenzie
“You know . . . I have . . . Ackroyd
“Kate,” wrote Edgar Johnson, “finding that . . . Johnson
“the quantity is not sufficient . . . Johnson
“with what a strange mastery . . . Forster
“I am bent on paying the money . . . Forster
“Leech was a nervous . . . Hearn
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“ . . . I fell into a state of neglect . . . Ackroyd
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“ . . . others observed that Dickens’ . . . Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, Becoming Dickens, Belknap Harvard University Press (Boston, MA) 2009
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“Harry was a singular child . . . Ackroyd
“The blackened skies would . . . Chesney, Russell W., M.D., “Environmental factors in Tiny Tim’s near-fatal illness,” Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, March 2012
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“his imagination continued to be . . . Slater
“Christmas was always a . . . Kaplan
“The close, low chamber at the back . . . Dickens, Charles, “Field Lane Ragged School,” Daily News (London) February 4, 1846
“ . . . [H]e saw before him always . . . Ackroyd
“Many of them retire for . . . Kaplan
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“ . . . nobody ever came to the school . . . Ackroyd
“ . . . [H]is distracted mother tried . . . Johnson, Vol. 1
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“How could Scrooge, who . . . Chesney
“This was a primitive process . . . Hearn
“I do not doubt, in my own . . . Hearn
“At Christmas 1843 Dickens, for all . . . Tomalin
“Dickens and Forster above all exerted . . . Carlyle, Jane, http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/
“Forster is out again; and if he don’t . . . Ackroyd
“Good God, how we missed you . . . Johnson
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“The book went straight to . . . Tomalin
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“The first six thousand copies . . . Forster
“And indeed this was his panic . . . Ackroyd
“the coxcombical idea of writing down . . . Johnson
“On the way to the railway station . . . Ackroyd
“ . . . we were all going on together . . . Ackroyd
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“The secret of his original success . . . Kent
“how Mr. Dickens twirled his moustache . . . Ackroyd,
“My good friends. . . .” But he had to stop . . . Ackroyd
“I now proceed to the pleasant task . . . Ackroyd
“If Dickens does turn Reader . . . Ackroyd
“The Carol also shows a notable . . . Slater
“Dickens was lying ill on a sofa, playing . . . Maurois, Andre, Dickens, Frederick Ungar Publishing (New York, NY) 1967
“My father, after man turns had successfully . . . Ackroyd
“As Dickens grew up . . . MacKenzie
“The site of his childhood labor . . . Ackroyd
“It was not until his biography appeared . . . Maurois
“All that his readers knew or . . . Slater
“Thrown among the poor and needy . . . Slater
“Certain biographers have shown surprise . . . Maurois
“No one can imagine their own . . . Tomalin
“It was more than a reading; it was an extraordinary . . . Johnson
“what creatures were those . . . Kent
“He tightened the narrative . . . Perdue, David, “Dickens’ Public Readings,” http://charlesdickenspage.com/stage.html
“Dickens’ six-man entourage . . . Perdue, Public Readings
“How the audience loved best of all . . . Perdue, Public Readings
“It was an occasion of high emotion . . . Tomalin
“Never did [a] man wishing to deceive . . . McManus, I.C., “Charles Dickens: A Neglected Diagonosis,” The Lancet, Volume 358, Issue 9299, pp. 2158 - 2161, December 22, 2001
“I have had some step put up the side . . . Johnson
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“The largest audience ever assembled . . . Kent, Reader
“spare figure . . . faultlessly attired in evening dress . . . Ackroyd
“a big man, full of energy, optimism and know-how . . . Tomalin
“The manly, cordial voice only faltered . . . Kent, Readings
“When he ceased to speak,” wrote Henry Fielding Dickens . . . Leacock, Stephen, Charles Dickens: The Life and Work, Doubleday Doran (Garden City, NY) 1936
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