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Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century—but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Roger Kimball on the most unfairly neglected framer.
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
The New York of Charles Dickens’s first visit remains recognizable. It is still, as Dickens observed, “a great emporium of commerce” and a “place of general resort.”