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MR. FORSTER'S LIFE OF DICKENS

... MR. FORSTER'S LIFE OF DICKENS. Mr. John Forster has written a Life of Charles Dickens,* and as no one had a more intimate knowledge of the man, having lived in the closest friendship with him for thirty years, no one had better opportunities for becoming ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1871
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2831 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Robbery

... letter introducing it by Hablot Knight Browne, better known (by how many millions ?) as Phiz, the illustrator of Charles Dickens and Charles Lever, and ever so many other less celebrated contemporaries in the world of light literature. The most portentous ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3926 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

. OUB PRMRD. We extract the following description of the two principal characters in Mr. Charles Dickens's new ..

... . OUB PRMRD. We extract the following description of the two principal characters in Mr. Charles Dickens's new Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house, in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1864
Newspaper: Maryport Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3158 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ROBBERIES IN WHITEHAVEN

... U» town on Wednesday. Having received information of the above robberies, he took his measures accordingly, and conducted Mrs. Benson on Friday night to room in tow lodging-house, Charles Mrect, in which tho whole family were in bed together. ho accuinto ...

FROM DICKENS TO WILKIE COLLINS

... FROM DICKENS TO WILKIE COLLINS. some letter? the late Charles Dickens to Wi’.kie Collins is one giving a huraoro account of what appears to ha'© been painful the leg timat© drama —Tavistock H-Juse. Sunday, Fourth March, iBi)s. My Dear Collins,—l have ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1891
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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MRS. NORTON ON DICKENS

... MRS. NORTON ON DICKENS. The following poem on Mr. Charles Dickens, by Mrs. Norton, appeared in 1841. It deserves reprinting at this moment:— Not merely thine the tribute praise Which greets an author's progress here; Not merely thine the fabled bays Whose ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1870
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7356 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BRADFORD ROBBERIES

... the year's work was given. The Home Instructor Library.—When one can get the works of standard authors like Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, the Brontes, &c., for one shilling volume, handsomely bound in dark-red cloth, one is compelled to ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1893
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY

... GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY. Our Hastings correspondent sends us information of a great jewel robbery at the seat of the Duke of Cleveland, Battle Abbey, near Hastings. During a dinner party ome thieves gained access to the bedroom occupied by the duke and duchess ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GREAT AIR ROBBERY

... EDWARDS and CHRIBSIE WHITE. One the best pictures ever screened. A One Act Super ProductionNAMCV. From Oliver Twist Charles Dickens. Featuring SYBIL THORNDYKE. _ THE HAUNTED HOUSE. Two-Parfc Comedy. Featuring BUSTER KEATON. ''OE ™HEE DAYS COMMENCING ...

THE WELLINGBOROUGH ROBBERY CASE

... ship Royal Standard, which was about to sail for Melbourne. the passenger book I found the names of Henry Vincent and Charles Dickens. After seeing these names I saw touter who had been with the prisoners, and from him I got a description of them and ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1863
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4053 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LETTERS OF CHAS. DICKENS

... LETTERS OF CHAS. DICKENS.: i. I An important contribution to our knowledge of one of I the greatest writers of this century will lio issued this I week front the publishing house of Chaprman and Hall. Mr. Forster's Life of Charles Dickens contains a very ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4149 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

HIGHWAY ROBBERY

... HIGHWAY ROBBERY. INSURANCE AGENT OVERPOWERED BY TRAMPS. A highway robbery, by which aa insurance •gent lost £7, was committed the road be* tween Otley and Leeds yesterday morning. Mr. F. G. Bowen, of 2. Sooth-parade. Otley. was rastting by Hall, when ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1910
Newspaper: Bolton Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 985 | Page: 5 | Tags: none