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Old and New London
… Mr. John Forster epitomises the history in his "Life of Dickens" by saying that it was begun by a shoemaker of …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1777 8 Sept. Wilson, R. 1777 23 Oct. Ellis, T. 1777 8 Nov. Dickens, J. 1778 Slater, M. 1779 2 Jan. Painter, J. 1779 8 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Swan, half way along Clapton Common, was described by Dickens in his first published work. 4 Services ran from the … vendors named in Hist. Lond. Transport, i. 404-5, 410. Dickens's Dict. Lond. (1880). A. W. McCall, Kingsland Rd. … Transport, i. 185, 259 (maps). Tramcars' colours are in Dickens's Dict. Lond. (1880). H.A.D., D/F/AMH/555, p. 21. …
Old and New London
… last few years of his life. Mr. Forster, in his "Life of Dickens," thus mentions him:"Any kind of extravagance or …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in order to preserve the rights of the lord. 44 Charles Dickens's father John was a lodger with Mrs. Davis, a … including directors of Jones Bros. of Holloway and Dickens & Jones of Regent Street. The intention was to profit … diary of heath keeper (1834-40) in S.C.L. Letters of Chas. Dickens, i. 5, 47. H.H.E. Dir. (1870). The Times, 24 May …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1823, 7 picnickers enjoyed the ridges and hollows, 8 Dickens thought that a few made an improvement, 9 and later …
Old and New London
… and Southgate. Mr. J. Forster, in his "Life of Charles Dickens," speaks several times of his almost daily … and other literary friends. At Hampstead the elder Mr. Dickens resided during part of the time whilst his son was at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for most of the 19th century. The Spaniards, where Charles Dickens placed the arrest of Mrs. Bardell in The Pickwick … writers. 79 They included Washington Irving c. 1824 80 and Dickens, who from 1838 often read manuscripts to his friends … of Health there were tea gardens, scornfully described by Dickens, from 1841 or earlier until the Second World War. 87 …
Old and New London
… Heath, as every reader of his "Life" is aware, Charles Dickens was extremely partial, and he constantly turned his … John Sadleir, we need hardly remind the reader of Charles Dickens's works, figures in "Little Dorritt" as Mr. Merdle. "I shaped Mr. Merdle himself," writes Dickens, "out of that gracious rascality." In Hardwicke's …