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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Dickens and Childhood conference at the V&A Museum of Childhood
V&A Museum of Childhood, London (UK)
Mon, 18th June 2012 - Mon, 18th June 2012
Dickens was a perceptive observer of the stages of child development, and records his own incoherent and overwhelming feelings of love, joy, fear and pain in his great novels of childhood: 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'. He was himself the father of 10 children, one of whom died in infancy. His writing swarms with babies, infants and children, scrabbling their way to maturity in the bewildering adult world.
The V&A Museum of Childhood is working with the English Association and the Dickens Fellowship to host a one-day conference on ‘Dickens and Childhood’ on 18 June 2012. The day will include walks, lectures, readings, and parallel sessions on topics that will appeal to students, Dickens experts, and the ‘common reader’. The event will include an evening symposium of contemporary children’s authors speaking on how reading Dickens has influenced their work.
