Charles Dickens The Inimitable

What can we learn from Dickens and his work? How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?

View the next 7 slides then predict the setting (time and location) in which Dickens lived.

Dickens House Museum

City streets—people & places

Dickens lived during a period of contradictions.

child labor

Dickens—his life and works

Charles Dickens

“Dickens’ greatest friendship was, from the beginning, with his audience.”

English literature, his creativity is rivaled only by Shakespeare's.” “In all of

How did Dickens influence Victorian and modern Christmas traditions?

“..it was the Christmas stories of Dickens that rekindled the joy of Christmas in Britain and America.”

“I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book….

to raise the Ghost of an Idea…

May it haunt their houses pleasantly,

And no one wish to lay it down.” Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Literary Quotes

Bah Humbug!

"Mankind was my business.” Ignorance & Want

“I wear the chains I forged in life.”

David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page TNT’s A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Gad’s Hill Place Charles Dickens Victorian Web Site Victoriana The World of Charles Dickens