OMG! We haven't had a Dickens thread!!! [shock]

In these Hard Times, Gransnetters, has anybody bought anything at all, curious or not?

David Copperfield- Mr Micawber says with an intake of breath "Windsor Terrace City Road" I live there,- Yes and so did I! from 1943 - 1955 when houses were then demolished.
As a small schoolgirl I had to do shopping for Mrs Dale who was in her 90's her late husband was a ships captain and when he died she fel upon hard times and had rented rooms in Windsor Terrace ground floor number 17 my aunt and uncle lived above her and I lived at number 15 with parents and granparents. You know the nursery rhyme up and down the City Road in and out of the Eagle (pub was just around corner)
Mrs Dale told me when she was a child she knew Charles Dickens and she always told me to remember this as passing down some history!!
Houses now are blocks of flats !!!

Connections to what seems a dim and distant past are sometimes just a touch away aren't they Swansong?

Yes absentgrana good old days!! lol

Try
www.fathom.com/course/21701768/session3.html
for a description of his reception on that lecture tour. The paragrqph
'How they cheered: Dickens in America' is like the reception of the Beatles!

By the way he really didn't like that steamship, and came home on a sailing ship.

I suppose we need to look to bagitha and the purloined thermals for Knickerless Nickleby???

Isn't oral history wonderful swansong

I wonder how many Gnetters have thought to pass on, to their grandchildren, the oral history that they heard from their grandparents?? think t
that's how things stay alive and of interest!!

I certainly wish my grandparents had shared more of their life stories with us ...once they'd passed, so much family history was lost.

Yes Jacey I only really mentioned this Dickens story as its 200 Birthday Celebration I also put it on my Facebook just of interest( but got 2 comments of Amazing from 2 History Teachers) Otherwise younger members didnt take any notice although 12 comments to someone who put on their page that they had Fillet Steak for Supper!!!

Oh dear Chuzzlewit has already bitten the dust, deleted from my Kindle. I spent 10 minutes wading through the preface where Dickens explains (going all round the houses) that his characters might seem extreme but they aren't and something about America. I'm going to try again with something else, maybe Barnaby Rudge.

I never got on with MC either, despite my fondness for Dickens. How you enjoy "Barnaby Rudge" a little more, petallus

The only thing I remember about Martin Chuzzlewit is 'The Circumlocution Office'. I have worked in many circumlocution offices [local govt, civil service, nhs] and think it's probably Dicken's greatest creation..not out of place then and even more applicable today.....in fact, my whole life has been a sort of circumlocution offices, of sorts.

ooops; used the word sort twice in one sentence; unforgivable at the best of times, but even more so in a thread about Dickens.....oh for an edit button...