... not satisfied with the work and let another sculptor to modify her father's stone sideburns until they were the right length. Charles Dickens English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early ... and Alastair Sim. Historical subjects did not much interest Dickens. BARNABY RUDGE (1841), set at the time of the 'No Popery' riots of 1780, and A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859) are exceptions. Th...

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... had been sent to work in Warren's Blacking Factory. There he had to wrap and label bottles of blacking (a kind of shoe polish) for a wage of six shillings a week. He was forced to work twelve hours a day in unpleasant surroundings, earning only just enough to buy food and wander alone around London. Charles was deeply affected by these events: esspecialy his family's fall from ... him as a person and shaped his outlook as a writer and social critic. Later he remarked of this part of his life: "How much I suffered, it is ... utterly beyond my power to tell ... No words can express the se...

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