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The Visit to Illinois of Charles Dickens, 1842; Of His Sons, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, in 1886, and Alfred Tennyson Dickens, in 1911: What the Illinois State Historical Society Has Published about These Visits.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Feb 14, 2012 · In late March, Charles and Catherine moved into 48 Doughty Street; to recover from the death of Mary Hogarth on 7 May, the couple spent two weeks at Collins's Farm, Hampstead; in July, the couple stayed at the Hotel Rignolle, Calais; in September, they holidayed in Broadstairs on the English Channel.
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Hartford, Connecticut
- New Haven, Connecticut
- New York, New York
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Washington D.C.
American Notes - The town is built on the side of a hill, the highest point being commanded by a strong fortress, not yet quite finished. Several streets of good breadth and appearance extend from its summit to the water-side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundan...
Above all, I sincerely believe that the public institutions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation of happiness, under circumstances of privation and bereavement, than in my visits to the...
I happened to arrive at the first factory just as the dinner hour was over, and the girls [mill girls] were returning to their work; indeed the stairs of the mill were thronged with them as I ascended. They were all well dressed, but not to my thinking above their condition; for I like to see the humbler classes of society careful of their dress an...
These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are as favourable specimens of rural America, as their people are of rural Americans. The well-trimmed lawns and green meadows of home are not there; and the grass, compared with our ornamental plots and pastures, is rank, and rough, and wild: but delicate slope...
American Notes - We went on next morning, still by railroad, to Springfield. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a distance of only five-and-twenty miles, but at that time of the year the roads were so bad that the journey would probably have occupied ten or twelve hours. Fortunately, however, the winter having been unusually mil...
In Hartford stands the famous oak in which the charter of King Charles was hidden. It is now inclosed in a gentleman's garden. In the State House is the charter itself. I found the courts of law here, just the same as at Boston; the public institutions almost as good. The Insane Asylum is admirably conducted, and so is the Institution for the Deaf ...
After a night’s rest, we rose early, and in good time went down to the wharf, and on board the packet New York, for New York. This was the first American steamboat of any size that I had seen (American Notes, p. 77). Back to Top
The great promenade and thoroughfare, as most people know, is Broadway; a wide and bustling street, which, from the Battery Gardens to its opposite termination in a country road, may be four miles long. Shall we sit down in an upper floor of the Carlton House Hotel (situated in the best part of this main artery of New York), and when we are tired o...
It is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street. The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its quakerly influence (American Notes, p. 98). There are various public institutions. Among them a most exce...
Take the worst parts of the City Road and Pentonville, preserving all their oddities, but especially the small shops and dwellings, occupied there (but not in Washington) by furniture-brokers, keepers of poor eating-houses, and fanciers of birds. Burn the whole down; build it up again in wood and plaster; widen it a little; throw in part of St John...
Feb 7, 2012 · Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is today, never visited Chicago. Everyone in town assumed he would come on his 1867 reading tour of the United States – his no-good brother, Augustus, had been living died in Chicago the year before, and his widow was still living on Clark Street.
Feb 18, 2022 · On January 3, 1842 Charles Dickens, a month shy of his 30th birthday, sailed from Liverpool on the steamship bound for America. See a clickable map of Dickens' 1842 travels in America and Canada.
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Dec 24, 2006 · After Augustus died in 1866, the Chicago media ripped Charles for not helping Bertha out financially, and the bad press grew when a rankled Dickens crossed Chicago off his list of stops...
