Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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'Charles Dickens: The Man Behind the Novels' - Talk part of City Read London
Richmond Library, Little Green, Richmond (UK)
Tue, 24th April 2012 - Tue, 24th April 2012
Join the great, great, great granddaughter of Charles Dickens - author, art historian and public speaker Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - as she comes to Richmond Library to talk about her latest book in celebration of City Read London. 'Charles Dickens: The Man Behind the Novels' is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works. It follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest celebrity of his age - and how he still remains recognised as one of England's greatest celebrities, even in the 21st Century. The book also takes an intimate look at what he was like as a husband, a father, a friend and an employer; at his longing to be an actor, at his fascination with detective work and at his travels: across North America, during a year spent living in Italy and his regular trips to France. Alongside Dickens himself, you will meet his fasinating family and his astonishing circle of friends - and will discover when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in Dickens' art. The cast of characters in the book embraces an incredible array of famous - and occasionally infamous-Victorians.
