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Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Birthplace of Dickens, Portsmouth, England. CHARLES DICKENS. D=7 In 1845 the Daily News was started under the editorial auspices of Dickons,and to its columns he contributed the sketches called Pictures of Italy. Butthe position was not congenial to his tastes, and he soon withdrew from it andreturned to his own loved walk. Dombey and Son, the story of a purse-proudmerchant, appeared in 1847 ; David Copperfield, depicting the career of a youngliterary man struggling up to fame, in 1849 ; Bleak House, founded on the mis-eries of a suit in Chancery, in 1853 ; Little Dorritt, the story of a young girlsdevotion to a father in prison for debt, in 1856; A Tale of Two Cities, in 1059 ;Great Expectations, in 1861 ; and Our Mutual Friend, in 1865. In 1850 hestarted HonseJwld Words, a weekly periodical, which was enriched by the contribu-tions of some of the ablest writers of the day, and which was brought to a con-
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Gadshill, the Home of Charles Dickens. elusion in 1859. The next year succeeded All the Year Round, similar in janand form. A number of Christmas stories were written in collaboration \.\\\\others, and Our Mutual Friend was printed in 1865. He had begun TheM\s-tery of Edwin Drood, which was being published in serial form, when he died at h.ishome, Gadshill Place, in 1870. Besides the more important works which have been mentioned, Dickens con-tributed to the magazines a great number of stories and sketches. About twelveyears before his death he began to give public readings in London. They gavesuch great satisfaction to the immense audiences by which they were greeted, andwere a source of so great profit to him, that they were continued in all the leadngcities of England, and during a visit to America in 1868. 628 CHARLES -DICKENS. No man has ever ministered more to the dehghted pleasure of his friends thandid Charles Dickens. He delighted in entertaining his intimates at Gadshill, an

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