The Master of Victorian tales: Charles Dickens!

#16 Week 4

Sigrun Sørumgård
January 22, 2025

Which Charles Dickens novel opens with ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of times’?
In what Engelish county is Charles Dickens Great Expectations set?
What Charles Dickens character gets adopted in the end by Mr. Brownlow?
What color was David Copperfield’s hair in the Dickens novel?
Dickens famously worked in a blacking factory as a child. What event led to this period in his life?
Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
What is Charles Dickens’ middle names?
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and which other city?
Where is Charles Dickens buried?
What is the full title of Charles Dickens novel Hard Times?

Dickens was a well known philanthropist, who committed himself to a number of good causes, particularly focusing on issues of child poverty and education. In 1847 he founded his own charity, in collaboration with Angela Burdett-Coutts, called Urania Cottage.
In addition to authoring novels, Dickens was also the editor of the weekly magazines, Household Words and All The Year Round. Designed to champion the causes of the poor, they featured articles and short stories provided by a range of writers. Dickens serialised his own novels, such as Hard Times, through his magazines, but he also welcomed contributors from other writers such as Wilkie Collins and George Augustus Henry Sala.
Dickens also welcomed contributions from female writers, including the first salaried female journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton, as well as writers Harriet Parr and Elizabeth Gaskell. One of the stories published in All The Year Round was called The Haunted House. It was co-written by six different authors, three of whom were female.

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