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Henry James Review (1985 words) |
 | Dickens has made a speciality, and with which he has been accustomed to draw alternate smiles and tears, according as he pressed one spring or another. |
| Dickens's pathetic characters, she is a little monster; she is deformed, unhealthy, unnatural; she belongs to the troop of hunchbacks, imbeciles, and precocious children who have carried on the sentimental business in all Mr. |
| Dickens, according to his usual plan, has made them simply figures, and between them the story that was to be, the story that should have been, has evaporated. |
| Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens Biography, Novels, Life, Books. (2329 words) |
| Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the inquiry into the crash, as it would have become known that he was travelling that day with Ellen Ternan and her mother, which could have caused a scandal. |
| Dickens, it should be remembered, lived in a time which preceded the Holocaust, and it can be argued that he was writing for dramatic effect: Fagin, when all is said and done, is a caricature, one of the great pantomime villains of fiction. |
| Dickens' response to the (mild) criticism of Fagin emanating from the Mrs. |
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