{"id":3052,"date":"2025-02-07T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:09:23","slug":"charles-dickens-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2025\/02\/07\/charles-dickens-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens&#8217; Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #808080\">Charles Dickens&#8217; Birthday<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Happy birthday, Charles John Huffam Dickens \u2013 born this day 212 years ago and still going strong!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Not many authors get their names turned into adjectives, but our Charles did. If I were to describe circumstances as \u201cDickensian\u201d, you\u2019d know exactly what I mean. It\u2019s thanks to this forensic analysis of the seedier aspects of London life that he\u2019s generally considered to be the greatest Victorian novelist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #808080\">Childhood<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">He didn\u2019t have the best start in life, young Charles. His father had a decent job but was so financially reckless that he ended up in debtors\u2019 prison, and his 12-year-old son was withdrawn from school and sent to work in a factory. It was all grist to the mill, though, for Dickens. This harsh start provided a rich source of material for him to draw on when he wrote his sprawling, serialized novels and created his many memorable characters \u2013 so much larger than life that they live on in our cultural imaginations more than two centuries on.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #808080\">Characters<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Who has not known an Ebenezer Scrooge? (I\u2019ve known a few). How many of us have skelped an artful dodger around the lugs? (I\u2019m not admitting to that one.) Who has not cheered on Philip (Pip) Pirrip as he rises up to become a gentleman and then remonstrated with him when he treats brother-in-law Joe so abominably? Who has not cried with Bob Cratchit as he strives to keep his young son alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">You\u2019ll have your favourite characters. Some are sweet and innocent, some are cruel and heartless; still, others are preposterous buffoons. My favourite is Betsey Trotwood, David Copperfield\u2019s eccentric aunt. She\u2019s stern and stubborn, to begin with but comes good in the end. If you\u2019re looking for character transformation, look no further than BT.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #808080\">Charles Dickens on LibrarySearch<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">We\u2019ve got all Dickens\u2019 books. If you haven\u2019t read any, why not start today.\u00a0 Log into the library catalogue <a href=\"https:\/\/napier.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=44NAP_INST:44NAP_ALMA_VU1\">LibrarySearch<\/a> to see which are available:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">In order of publication:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Pickwick Papers (1836-37)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">A Christmas Carol (1843)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Oliver Twist (1837-9)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Nicholas Nickelby (1838-9)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">The Old Curiosity Shop (1940-1)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Barnaby Rudge (1841)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Dombey and Son (1846-8)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">David Copperfield (1849-50)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Bleak House (1852-3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Hard Times (1854)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Little Dorritt (1855-7)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">A Tale of Two Cities (1859)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Great Expectations (1860-1)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Our Mutual Friend (1864-5)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">The Mystery of Edwin Drood (incomplete when Dickens died in 1870)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley McRobb<\/p>\n<p>Read more on another Literary Master, Jane Austin in our post on her <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/12\/16\/jane-austin-day\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">photo by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/YanONxOnFds\">Taha (Unsplash)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens&#8217; Birthday Happy birthday, Charles John Huffam Dickens \u2013 born this day 212 years ago and still going strong! 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