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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Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Tue, 21st February 2012 - Tue, 21st February 2012
One of the few contemporary institutions to have Dickens’s unqualified approval was the Metropolitan Police. The supremely resourceful and effective Inspector Bucket in 'Bleak House' was based upon Detective Inspector Charles Field who would escort Dickens and his friends on tours of some of London’s most notorious criminal slums. ‘Mr Inspector’ in 'Our Mutual Friend' is another police character admiringly presented by Dickens. In his talk Michael Slater will discuss not only the Metropolitan Police in Dickens’s novels but also his extensive journalistic writings about the Force, especially the Detective Branch. Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Past President of both the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. He is the author of a number of books on Dickens, most recently 'Charles Dickens'.
Time: 7.30pm.
Tickets: £8, concs £6. For booking details and further information please visit www.bishopsgate.org.uk or telephone 020 7392 9200.
