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LOCAL AND GENERAL

... House of Commons, in his sermon at the Savoy Chapel, on Sunday, spoke of the death of Mr. Charles Dickens, and said that, strange as it might sound, Mr. Dickens had by his writings done essential service to the Christian Church. There swas a punity and ...

Published: Tuesday 14 June 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4052 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE

... £2t,800;o The V icar of Bellhianpton, flaph the Heir, The Enstace Diamonds, and The Prime Minister, each £2,500. Dickens, at his death, left £80,000, a considerable slice; of wvhich caie from hooks. The stipulated paynient for his first great ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1887
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2026 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WEEKLY LONDON LETTER

... also wrote an exhaustive study of Charles Whitehead, the novelist and post, and the friend of Dickens, who was originally asked to write “The Pickwick Papers,” and who, unable to do the work himself, recommended Dickens, then comparatively unknown, as & ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2262 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BELGIUM THRONE

... and draped into graceful folds, more often than not, veiled with mousseline de soie. Rochester Corporation have decided Charles Dickens room the local ancient building described, in The Nun’s House.” The death is reported at Toronto of Holdemess, a native ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1230 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CAMBBIDGB, TUESDAY

... Emmanuel. —Wilson, Thomas; Wimberley. Charles. Clare Hail.— Barker, Matthew; Hurst, William; Lindsay, Charles Philip; Sells, Alfred: Try on. George Robert John. Sidney. —Owen, Edward; Yananton. Thomas Cuose; Gutch, Charles; Lut, Edward Keffurd. The following ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2999 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... that case was Mr. Dickens, a son of Charles Dickens. Mr. Dickens startled the Court by calling Mr. Pickwick, whereupon it obviously occurred to the learned Judge to say that Pickwick was a very appro- priate witness to be called by Dickens. ...

Published: Monday 05 March 1888
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3015 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ERA YE BY AT A FIRE IN BRISTOL

... Falstaff the robbery at Gadshill, passing on to the scene at Agincourt, in which Henry appears as the Warrior King, and concluding with his love-making with Catherine. The second part of the programme included the Boots at the Holly Tree Inn (Dickens), which ...

THE YORKSHIRE POST, TUESDAY. APRIL 13. 1909

... court—tha latter for the preferring charge of attempted robbery against Gomel >ua age It, and the former aa wilosss the Mr. Lemon, being last evening, about cine o'clock, I was walking with my friend Mr. Dickene along the are Road, I felt hand coat pocket, and ...

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... HoIsson, h Tarnton, 3: E. Scott, bi Robinson, 2; B. H IWend, b Dickens, 56; S. France. c Darnte,, b Ivy. 34; H. Horner, ran oert, 36; lion. (L. Lascellies, rcn out, 1; AV. Wright, c. Ifalton I Dickens, 2; A. Faewkes, feg before wicket, 20; Denison, c Robinson ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

«D-10A\A\V'illRKILIES&

... (Section E) (led by Marie Wilson), conducted Charles Webber. 9.o—The Second News, Time Signal, Greenwich. 9.2o—“Foreign Affairs: Mr. Vernon Bartlett. 9.35.—•“ A Christmas Carol, ’* based on the story by Charles Dickens; new adaptation for the microphone by ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1933
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS

... good novel, proceeded to consider the leading characteristics of works of Charles Dickens, and what be conceived to be tbeir merits and demerits, justifying his selection of Dickens instead any other novelist, becausemore than half amillion copiesof bis ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4461 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“ OLD JACK’S ” CODE

... Hubert Henry Davis’s new play, which Sir Charles Wyndham will produce at the Criterion this autumn, is rather extraordmaxjy in one respect, in that it contains only four characters, These will be played by Sir Charles, Miss Mary Moore, Mr. Sam Sothern, and ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1907
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2000 | Page: 3 | Tags: none