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Title: A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rced people tothink, whether they would or not. The audience makesthe author, and the author makes the audience. Thehalf-century following 1832 was. to see — among othermarks of literary progress — a remarkable developmentof the novel, the essay, and the poem. The three novelists of the Victorian Age whose writ-ings are looked upon as modern classics are CharlesDickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Mary AnnEvans Cross, or George Eliot. 134. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. The first nineyears of Charles Dickenss life were very happy ; buthis fathers salary was cut down, and before long he wasimprisoned for debt. The rest of the family establishedthemselves in the prison, and there the little boy spenthis Sundays. Through the week he was left to workall day in a cellar and spend his nights in an attic. It isno wonder that throughout his life he had deep sym-pathy for lonely children. After a while came a fewyears of prosperity, and the boy was sent to school. 224 ENGLANDS LITERATURE
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(1829-I85O His father became a parliamentary reporter for one ofthe papers; and when Charles was seventeen, he set outto learn shorthand. He was wise enough to realize thata good reporter must know much more than shorthand ; and he read, read hardw hour after hour, when- ever he had the hours. There were twothings that the youngman liked to do betterthan all else. Onewas to act and theother was to write ;and one day he wastoo happy to keep thetears from his eyes,for the Monthly Maga-zine had published apaper of his, knownafterwards as Mr.Minns and his Cousinin Sketches by Boz. Boz was his little sisters pronun-ciation of Moses, a nickname which Charles had given tohis brother in memory of Moses in The Vicar ofWakefield. Other sketches followed. By and by theycame out in book form. Then a publishing firm askedPickwick if he would write a series of humorous articles. He agreed, and this was the origin of thePickwick Papers. Dickens was now twenty-his fame and his bank account were incre

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