... portrait of her in Night and Day as 'Mrs Hilbery'. Thackeray began to contribute regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared in 1848 as THE BOOK OF SNOBS, stating in it that "he who meanly admires mean things is a Snob." In 1840 Isabella ... down speeches word for word. At the age of eighteen, Dickens applied for a reader's ticket at the British Museum, where he read with eager industry the works of Shakespeare, Goldsmith's History of E...

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... life, and floated me away over a hundred men's heads." The great succes of Pickwick Papers ... Under the pen name 'Boz' Dickens also wrote some short pieces and sketches for the Monthly Magazine, Bell's Weekly Magazine, The Morning Chronicle, The Evening Chronicle, Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle. These were soon collected in his first book, Sketches by 'Boz', which appeared in 1836. In 1836 Dickens ... (1852-53), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1855-57) and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). In the sixties Dickens published the weekly-serialised novel Great Expectations (1860-...

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... he called on later to portray characters with remarkable realism. As a newspaper reporter Dickens distinguished himself; out of eighty or ninety he was acknowledged as the best. When the Morning Chronicle expanded, Dickens jumped at the chance for a staff position. He later commented to his biographer John Forster that he "went at it with a determination to overcome all difficulties, which fairly ... , legislation which Dickens felt institutionalized ill treatment of society's least fortunate. Bentley put out the book in three volumes in 1838. Though Oliver Twist was a huge financial and...

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