Early Dickens story of Christmas dinner at his aunt and uncle's...1835 |
hristmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of C...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:30:00 GMT |
Stave 1: Marley's Ghost |
arley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: an...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:11:00 GMT |
Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits |
hen Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with h...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:10:00 GMT |
Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits |
waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:07:00 GMT |
Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits |
he Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrou...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:05:00 GMT |
Stave 5: The End of it! |
es! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in! "I will live in the Past, the Present, and t...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:03:00 GMT |
The great Kathleen Harrison...Mrs. Dilber |
I just adore Kathleen Harrison...she lived to the ripe old age of 103!! (appeared in Scrooge w/ Alistair Sim-1951)
Kathleen Harrison (1892 - 1995)
To say Kathleen Harrison was typ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:03:00 GMT |
Homeless..."some would rather die than go there..." |
Victorian London - Houses and Housing - Homelessness - Sleeping rough
'There are still a large number of Londoners and a considerable percentage of wanderers from the country in search of work, who f...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT |
"Ill retire to Bedlam..." |
Selected written articles on Bethlehem hospital..."Bedlam":
Victorian London - Health and Hygiene - Hospitals - Bethlehem Hospital
The visiting days are two Mondays i...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:10:00 GMT |
Poe and Dickens |
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) American author and poet who met Dickens in Baltimore in 1842. Poe's admiration for Dickens' work was an influence on his own writing. The relationship ended two yea...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 23:53:00 GMT |
