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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 27 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 104837 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Mr. 25 Mrs. 21 Miss 20 London 14 Charles 13 George 11 John 10 Sir 10 England 9 english 9 Lord 9 January 8 Lady 7 life 7 July 7 God 7 Dickens 6 sidenote 6 man 6 letter 6 Sunday 6 New 6 Lewes 6 Forster 6 Eliot 6 December 5 year 5 french 5 Saturday 5 October 5 November 5 Monday 5 June 5 James 5 House 5 Henry 5 February 5 Dr. 5 Christmas 5 Charlotte 4 work 4 time 4 Wednesday 4 Tuesday 4 Paris 4 Mary 4 March 4 Jane 4 Friday 4 Fanny Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 day is no more 2 life is no less 2 place was not hot 2 work is not yet 1 _ are not ethical 1 _ are not only 1 _ are not so 1 _ did not immediately 1 _ did not much 1 _ did not quite 1 _ had no contributions 1 _ has no reason 1 _ has not yet 1 _ have no truer 1 _ is no recommendation 1 _ is not afraid 1 _ is not altogether 1 _ is not certain 1 _ is not equal 1 _ is not quite 1 _ is not so 1 _ was no doubt 1 _ was not likely 1 _ was not so 1 _ was not substantial 1 _ was not yet 1 book is not altogether 1 book is not so 1 book was not only 1 books are not attractive 1 books are not vulgar 1 books are not yet 1 character does not easily 1 characters are not such 1 day does not exactly 1 day was not only 1 days was not so 1 days were not many 1 dickens had no alternative 1 dickens had no faith 1 dickens had no interest 1 dickens had no leisure 1 dickens had no particular 1 dickens had no real 1 dickens had not drily 1 dickens had not much 1 dickens is no pale 1 dickens is not calm 1 dickens leaves no doubt 1 dickens took no house A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 42078 author = Austen, Jane title = The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne date = keywords = AUSTEN; Charles; Chawton; Edward; Fanny; Frank; Friday; Godmersham; Henry; James; Lady; Martha; Mary; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; Park; Steventon; Sunday; Thursday; Tuesday summary = bring Edward home to-day, dine with us, and we shall all go together to _Wednesday, 23d._--I wish my dear Fanny many returns of this day, and first Elizabeth was rather sorry at his accepting; but yesterday Mrs. Evelyn called on us, and her manners were so pleasing that we liked the Mary has for some time had notice from Mrs. Dickson of the intended arrival of a certain Miss Fowler in this place. Tell Fanny that I shall write in a day or two to Miss We called on the Miss Lyells one day, and heard a good account of Mr. Heathcote''s canvass, the success of which, of course, exceeds his A letter from Wrotham yesterday offering an early visit here, and Mr. and Mrs. Moore and one child are to come on Monday for ten days. I suppose in the mean time I shall owe dear Henry a great id = 17797 author = Austen-Leigh, James Edward title = Memoir of Jane Austen date = keywords = Admiral; Austen; Bath; Charles; Chawton; Denham; Edward; Henry; House; Jane; Lady; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Park; Sanditon; Sir; Steventon summary = Letter--Lines on the Death of Mrs. Lefroy--Observations on Jane Austen''s house of a family living, and about forty-five years ago it was pulled all English travellers, but at the post-houses Mrs. Henry Austen gave the have said is descriptive of the family life at Steventon in Jane Austen''s At the time when Jane Austen lived at Steventon, a work was carried on in Death of Mrs. Lefroy--Observations on Jane Austen''s I know little of Jane Austen''s childhood. years old at the time of her aunt''s death, these words seem to imply that Jane Austen was ''makin'' hersell,'' little thinking of future fame, but A wish has sometimes been expressed that some of Jane Austen''s letters Since that time, the testimonies in favour of Jane Austen''s works have character in the works of Jane Austen second only to those of ''MY DEAR ALETHEA,--I think it time there should be a little writing id = 22536 author = Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur title = Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record date = keywords = Austen; Bath; Cassandra; Charles; Chawton; Edward; Eliza; Emma; Fanny; Frank; George; Godmersham; Henry; James; Jane; January; John; Knight; Lady; Leigh; London; Lord; Mary; Memoir; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Park; Pride; Rev.; Sir; Steventon summary = _Letters of Jane Austen_, edited by Edward Lord probable that Jane Austen''s early knowledge of Bath was to a great from the happy life which ensued, and from the lovely features of Mrs. Edward Austen, preserved in the miniature by Cosway.[57] Some of Jane''s another visitor in the summer of 1792, in Jane Cooper, daughter of Mrs. Austen''s only sister, who came here after her father''s death. letters disappointing because ''the Jane Austen who wrote the novels is Mrs. Austen was at this time in poor health, and Jane While Jane was away on this visit, Mr. and Mrs. Austen came to a proved a great interest to the party of ladies, and in which old Mrs. Austen worked vigorously, almost to the end of her days, often attired Early in May, Jane left London; and, after paying a short visit to Mrs. Hill (_née_ Catherine Bigg) at Streatham, returned home to Chawton, id = 36847 author = Blind, Mathilde title = George Eliot date = keywords = Adam; Barton; Bede; Bray; CHAPTER; Daniel; Deronda; Dinah; Eliot; England; Evans; George; Glegg; Lewes; Maggie; Marian; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Romola; english; german; jewish; life; nature; work summary = Detailed accounts of GEORGE ELIOT''S life have hitherto been singularly GEORGE ELIOT''S early life, I enjoyed the privilege of meeting her forming an idea of the growth of GEORGE ELIOT''S mind, my warm thanks are By far the most exhaustive published account of GEORGE ELIOT''S life and of the imagination by which true artistic work is produced; George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known as "George Eliot," was born on November Is there not a strong family resemblance between this character and Mrs. Poyser, that masterpiece of George Eliot''s art? It is on this state of George Eliot''s life that we are now entering. The ''Scenes of Clerical Life'' were to George Eliot''s future works what a people heard that George Eliot had once been a Miss Marian Evans, who This was the most productive period of George Eliot''s life. seemed a necessary condition of life." But, as George Eliot says, "Power id = 6042 author = Burney, Fanny title = The Diary and Letters of Madame D''Arblay — Volume 2 date = keywords = Burke; Burney; Colonel; Court; Crewe; Dr.; Duke; Elizabeth; Fairly; Fanny; Fox; General; Goldsworthy; Gwynn; Hall; Hastings; House; James; Johnson; Kew; Lady; Lord; Luc; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Planta; Prince; Princess; Schwellenberg; Sir; Smelt; St.; Turbulent; Wales; Wellbred; Windham; Windsor; king; page summary = July 19.-In the afternoon, while I was working in Mrs. Schwellenberg''s room, Mr. Turbulent entered, to summon Miss "Yes!" cried Mrs. Schwellenberg, "MISS Burney might sit When all were gone Mrs. Schwellenberg said, "I have told it Mr. Fisher that he drove you out from the room, and he says he won''t received visits of inquiry from divers of her ladies--Mrs. Brudenell, bed-chamber woman; Miss Brudenell, her daughter, and a little while, and Miss Palmer said she longed to know him more, Miss Planta came to my room upstairs, to Inquire how long Mr. Fairly had stayed, and I was quite happy to appease her Soon after the king came into the room and said, "So, no Mr. Fairly again?" the royal family--king, queen, and three princesses--came into king was extremely ill, the queen very wretched, poor Mrs. Schwellenberg all spasm and horror, Miss Planta all restlessness, id = 6457 author = Burney, Fanny title = The Diary and Letters of Madame D''Arblay — Volume 3 date = keywords = Alex; Alexander; Augusta; Bath; Bonaparte; Brussels; Burke; Burney; Charles; Charlotte; Consul; Court; Crewe; D''ARBLAY; Dr.; Duchess; Duke; Elizabeth; England; English; Evelina; Fanny; France; General; George; Johnson; Lady; Lafayette; Locke; London; Lord; Louis; Madame; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Narbonne; Norbury; Paris; Phillips; Planta; Princess; Queen; Sir; Stael; Talleyrand; Windsor; french; page summary = on "Camilla"--Anecdote of the Duchess of York--A Visit to Mrs. Boscawen--The Relative Success of Madame d''Arblay''s Novels--A Madame d''Arblay''s Stepmother--The French Emigr''es at Norbury--Dr. Burney''s depressed state--Covetous of Personal Distinction--Baby d''Arblay''s Little Boy at Court--His Presentation to the Queen-Arrival in England--Alexander d''Arblay: Some old Bath Friends-spirits; so now I think it high time to let you know a little came away at night a letter arrived express to Madame de Stael. "Madame d''Arblay," said her majesty, "tells me that Mrs. Boscawen sister''s portrait, said, "Madame d''Arblay, when the princess Mrs. Fisher, "Madame d''Arblay, sir;" and instantly he came on a princess royal appeared, saying, "Madame d''Arblay, I come to my dear Madame d''Arblay, people ought to know more how good the pray, my dear Madame d''Arblay, bring your little boy with you. (Madame d''Arblay to Miss Planta, for the queen and princesses.) desire to meet again his old friend Madame d''Arblay! id = 11680 author = Cooke, George Willis title = George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy date = keywords = Adam; Bede; Blackwood; Christianity; Comte; Daniel; Deronda; Eliot; Evans; Felix; Floss; George; God; Gypsy; Holt; July; Lewes; London; Magazine; Maggie; Marian; Middlemarch; Mill; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Review; Romola; Scenes; Spanish; english; footnote; great; jewish; life; love; man; work summary = GEORGE ELIOT: A CRITICAL STUDY OF HER LIFE, WRITINGS AND PHILOSOPHY. through their pages on the same level of mind and life; and George Eliot has to teach about man, his social life, his moral responsibilities, his idea or new way of interpreting nature and life grows into form gradually, moral life, he comes to regard feeling as the divinest part of his nature, George Eliot believed that the better and nobler part of man''s life is to The mental life of man, according to George Eliot, is simply an expansion life George Eliot indicates her great genius and her profound insight. George Eliot presented her own theory of life. George Eliot''s characters are greater than their deeds; their inward life forth the power of the spiritual life as she conceived it, George Eliot as George Eliot''s work is artistic, poetic, moral and human, it is very id = 25852 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856 date = keywords = Charles; Christmas; Collins; DEAR; DEVONSHIRE; December; Dickens; England; Forster; Friday; God; HOUSE; Household; January; London; Macready; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Paris; Saturday; Sunday; TAVISTOCK; TERRACE; Thursday; Tuesday; Watson; Wednesday; Wills; Words; english; friend; sidenote summary = very long time to come, and to hold a place in your pleasant thoughts, Think of two hours of this every day, and the people coming in by I hope when I come home at the end of the month, we shall foregather me, but I think there are good things in the little story! words insufficient to tell you what I think of you after a night like has come.[8] Kate and Georgy send best loves to Mrs. White, and we hope station-house observation as I shall be to-night for a long time, and I I think you will find some good going in the next "Bleak House." I write me know the day, and come and see how you like the place. Venice, and home by Germany, arriving in good time for Christmas Day. Three nights in Christmas week, I have promised to read in the Town Hall id = 25853 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870 date = keywords = Arthur; Charles; Christmas; DEAR; Dickens; Dolby; February; Forster; Friday; GAD; HIGHAM; HILL; Hogarth; January; John; KENT; London; Macready; March; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; PLACE; ROCHESTER; Saturday; Sunday; TAVISTOCK; Thursday; Tuesday; Wednesday; sidenote summary = Charles Dickens gave two readings at St. Martin''s Hall of "The Christmas Carol" (to such immense audiences and From this place Charles Dickens writes to Mr. Edmund Yates, a young man in whom he had been interested from his talk of our old days at Lausanne, and send loving regard to Mrs. Cerjat way; but as ---had come express from London with it, Mrs. Dickens Coming home here last night, from a day''s business in London, I found The Christmas number of "Household Words," mentioned in a letter to Mr. Wilkie Collins, was called "A House to Let," and contained stories Mrs. Dickens, Miss Hogarth, and all the house send a thousand kind loves this comes to Gad''s Hill; also to my dear good Anne, and her little To-morrow night I read here in a very large place, and Tuesday morning Charles Dickens passed his last Christmas and New Year''s Day at Gad''s id = 25854 author = Dickens, Charles title = The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870 date = keywords = America; Charles; DEAR; DEVONSHIRE; Dickens; Edition; Edward; Felton; Forster; God; HILL; HOUSE; Illustrations; January; London; Lord; Lytton; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Saturday; Sir; Sunday; TERRACE; Wednesday; letter; sidenote; £1 summary = looking out for news of Longfellow, and shall be delighted when I know This same man asked me one day, soon after I came home, what Sir John Yesterday morning, New Year''s Day, when I walked into my little workroom forward to it day and night, and wish the time were come. I think I could write a pretty good and a well-timed house last Sunday week, a most extraordinary place, looking like an old I have read in _The Times_ to-day an account of your last night''s [61] Mrs. Winter, a very dear friend and companion of Charles Dickens in If you don''t get perfectly well soon, my dear old fellow, I shall come never was a time when a good new play was more wanted, or had a better Thank my dear Mrs. Fields for me for her delightful letter received on id = 43043 author = Eliot, George title = George Eliot''s Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) date = keywords = April; August; Blackwood; Bray; Charles; Coventry; December; Eliot; England; Evans; February; George; Goethe; Griff; Hennell; January; Jesus; John; July; June; Lewes; Life; London; Martineau; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Rosehill; Sara; Saturday; September; Strauss; Westminster; german; letter; sidenote summary = furniture at new house--Sewing--Reading "Life and Times of [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Lewis, Saturday evening, April, 1841.] week of years instead of days since you said to me your kind good-bye, [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of June, (?) 1845.] [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, Friday evening, autumn of [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, Tuesday morning, Dec. Mrs. Bray--Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, with important [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of Nov. 1846.] [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of 1848.] [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, beginning of April, 1850, from [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, beginning of April, 1850, from [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of Feb. 1856.] [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of Feb. 1856.] [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of Feb. 1856.] read--Articles written--Letters to Miss Hennell--"Life of id = 43044 author = Eliot, George title = George Eliot''s Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) date = keywords = Adam; April; August; Bede; Blackwood; Bodichon; Bray; Charles; Congreve; December; February; Florence; George; Hennell; January; John; Journal; July; June; Lewes; London; Madonna; March; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Rome; San; Sara; St.; letter; sidenote summary = Shall I ever write another book as true as "Adam Bede?" The weight of now I have read your letter, I can''t help thinking more of your the other day about "Adam Bede." He says he feels the better for Blackwood--Wishes Carlyle to read "Adam Bede"--"Life of letter-writing to let the few people we care to hear from know at once recall the things we saw in Italy, I shall write as long a letter as liking to turn over the leaves of a book which I read first in our old My first letter to you about your book, after having read it through, as in the old days, I cannot feel easy without writing to tell you my write me one of your charming letters, making a little picture of [Sidenote: Letter to Mrs. Congreve, Christmas-day, 1864.] I have read several times your letter of the 19th, which I found id = 43045 author = Eliot, George title = George Eliot''s Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3) date = keywords = Adam; August; Bede; Blackwood; Bodichon; Charles; Congreve; Cross; December; Dr.; Eliot; George; Gypsy; Hennell; January; John; Journal; July; June; Lewes; London; Madame; Middlemarch; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Professor; September; Spanish; letter; sidenote summary = the poem is at present uncertain, but I feel so strongly what Mr. Lewes insists on, namely, the evil of making it too long, that I shall day at the Priory--Letter to Miss Hennell--Visit of Mr. Lewes Letter to Mrs. Congreve--Mr. Lewes''s return from Bonn--First Bodichon--Women''s work--Letter to Mrs. Congreve--England and what tends to human good--Letter to Mrs. Bray on the writing Mrs. Congreve--Letters to John Blackwood--Second edition of The letter was addressed to Mrs. Follen; and one morning when I called on her in London (how many years Blackwood--"Middlemarch" finished--Letter to Mrs. Cross on Homburg--German reading--Letter to Mrs. Cross from Taylor--Note-writing--Home for girls--Letter to Mrs. day, after reading the _Times_, I feel as if all one''s writing were I have been always able to write my letters and read my proofs, letter to, on Mr. Lewes''s illness, iii. letter to, on Thornton Lewes''s illness, iii. thanks for letter to the _Times_, iii. id = 25851 author = Forster, John title = The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete date = keywords = America; April; August; Barnaby; Boston; Broadstairs; CHAPTER; Carol; Chapman; Charles; Christmas; Chuzzlewit; Copperfield; Cruikshank; David; December; Dickens; Dombey; Edinburgh; England; February; Friday; Gadshill; Gamp; Genoa; George; God; Hall; Heaven; House; Italy; James; January; Jeffrey; John; July; June; Kate; Lausanne; Life; Little; Liverpool; London; Lord; Maclise; Macready; March; Miss; Monday; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nickleby; Notes; November; October; Old; Oliver; Paris; Pickwick; Saturday; September; Sir; St.; Street; Sunday; Tuesday; Twist; Wednesday; Year; York; english; footnote; french; reading summary = "I think at that time Dickens took to writing small tales, and we had a time he came up, the man had taken the water at a wrong place, and in a That night must come on these fine days, in course of time was plain; for a moment, at what time of the day or night I should best like you to but at meal-times, as I read and write in our own little state-room. The second case had come in on the very day that Dickens visited the of his pleasant days there close, the little story of his Christmas book which Dickens wrote next day to the _Times_ descriptive of what we had impossible that he can read to-night!'' Says Dolby: ''Sir, I have told Mr. Dickens so, four times to-day, and I have been very anxious. Writing on New Year''s Day, Dickens himself id = 1700 author = Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title = The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2 date = keywords = Anne; Bell; Brontë; Charlotte; Currer; Emily; Eyre; God; Haworth; Jane; Lewes; London; Martineau; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nicholls; Shirley; Sir; Smith; Thackeray; Villette; letter; time summary = anxieties of the Brontë sisters--Currer Bell''s correspondence with Mr. Lewes--Unhealthy state of Haworth--Charlotte Brontë on the revolutions reviews of it--Miss Brontë visits London, meets Mr. Thackeray, and makes Haworth--Miss Brontë''s impressions of her visit to London--Her account should like a letter as long as your last, every time you write. them was the great writer of fiction for whom Miss Brontë felt so strong Brontë''s thoughts on the subject, in a letter addressed to Miss Wooler, The time when the article was read was good for Miss Brontë; she was dated her letter from a friend''s house in the neighbourhood of Mr. Smith''s residence; and when, a week or two afterwards, Miss Brontë "Miss Brontë put me so in mind of her own ''Jane Eyre.'' She looked Miss Brontë took great pains in seeking out one which she thought stayed at Haworth, Miss Brontë wrote the letter from which the following id = 1827 author = Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title = The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 date = keywords = Anne; Bradford; Branwell; Bridge; Bronte; Brussels; Charlotte; Emily; England; Haworth; Head; Heger; July; London; Madame; Maria; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Roe; Sunday; Tabby; W---; Wilson; Yorkshire; life; little; time; year summary = "I have asked, this day, two persons who lived in Haworth at the time to the life of Miss Bronte, whose strong mind and vivid imagination must Mr. Bronte was soon captivated by the little, gentle creature, and this time Charlotte Bronte''s life; and, though she had left her place many years one in winter, especially to children like the delicate little Brontes, No doubt she had many a tale to tell of bygone days of the country-side; old ways of living, former inhabitants, consider that Miss W---, in giving Charlotte Bronte so long a task, had her school-days, and describes things as they existed at that very time. "The village of Gomersall" (where Charlotte Bronte''s friend "Mary" lived little girl they called Charlotte Bronte. day long, and my head and hands too, without having a moment''s time had found time to write a letter of sympathy to Mr. Bronte on the loss id = 2993 author = Jones, Henry Festing title = Samuel Butler: A Sketch date = keywords = Butler; Darwin; Dr.; Erewhon; Handel; Miss; Mr.; New summary = Butler carried on his run for about four and a half years, and the openair life agreed with him; he ascribed to this the good health he In 1863 Butler''s family published in his name _A First Year in Canterbury book went out to New Zealand for correction and were sent back in the In 1865 Butler sent from London to New Zealand an article entitled reproduced in _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_ (1912). Butler wrote to Charles Darwin to explain what he meant by the "Book of found in _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_ (1912). from Handel''s music, each chosen because Butler thought it suitable to Butler then wrote music till about 8, when he came letter, Butler wrote: Although Butler, when editing Miss Savage''s letters in 1901, could not life of Dr. Butler, which was not published till 1896. Butler was not satisfied with having written only half of this work; he id = 36641 author = Marshall, Emma title = Women Novelists of Queen Victoria''s Reign: A Book of Appreciations date = keywords = Brontë; Charlotte; Crowe; Eliot; Emily; Esther; Ewing; Ferroll; Gaskell; George; Henry; John; Lady; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Mulock; Norton; Paul; Wood; book; english; life; little; story; woman summary = is the one only character in Miss Brontë''s little world who has a real fortune that the one man whom she knew in her life, whom her story With the exception of her powerful "Life of Charlotte Brontë," Mrs. Gaskell wrote only novels or short stories. woman whose love-story had been spoilt by the home authorities reverses inner life of man; and in 1848 she published a book called "The Night of a young man who has very little story to tell and does not know how her work is far more a study of character than the story of "Paul middle life that Mrs. Wood began to write; and her first work,--perhaps, Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, little cares and joys, so in the "Story of a Short Life" we have the "The Story of a Short Life" was not published in book form until four id = 16787 author = Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir title = Life of Charles Dickens date = keywords = April; C.D.; Charles; Christmas; David; December; Dickens; February; Forster; George; Italy; January; John; July; June; Life; London; Magazine; March; Martin; Monthly; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pickwick; Review; York; little summary = little Charles and David Copperfield; John Dickens Substitute John Dickens for Mr. Micawber, and Mrs. Dickens for Mrs. Micawber, and make David Copperfield a son of Mr. Micawber, a kind of elder Wilkins, and let little Charles Dickens be therein the story of Dickens'' life at this particular time? For the "Sketches" published in _The Old Monthly Magazine_, Dickens Dickens has written a sketch of her father''s life. place in the recently issued "Charles Dickens" edition of the works. "Martin Chuzzlewit" is unquestionably one of Dickens'' great works. happy time, says enthusiastically, "Charles Dickens, beaming in look, author of "The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens." London, 1886, the Charles Dickens Edition contains eleven fresh papers. ----The Life and Times of Charles Dickens. London News_, June 18, 1870, on Charles Dickens. Forster, John.--The Life of Charles Dickens. Hotten, John Camden.--Charles Dickens, the Story of his Life. Shelton.--Life of Charles Dickens, etc. Perkins, F.B.--Charles Dickens: a sketch of his life and works. id = 17954 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 4: The Life of George Eliot date = keywords = Cross; Eliot; George; Mr.; great; letter; life; man summary = Essay 4: The Life of George Eliot THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT.[1] THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT.[1] [Footnote 1: _George Eliot''s Life_. surprised us if George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain George Eliot, after all, led the life of a studious recluse, with none As a mere letter-writer, George Eliot will not rank among the famous abound in her letters that George Eliot had any particular weakness for her thought.'' George Eliot had none of this facility. George Eliot did not live in the The writer of _Sylvia''s Lovers_, whose work George Eliot reader finds repellent in George Eliot''s later work might perhaps never As she says here:--''Life, though a good to men on the whole, most brilliant of George Eliot''s younger friends (see iii. men''s minds from the true sources of high and pure emotion (iii. mature form than in the best work of George Eliot, and her stories id = 37888 author = Reid, T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) title = Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph date = keywords = Anne; Bell; Branwell; Brontë; Charlotte; Currer; Ellen; Emily; Eyre; Gaskell; God; Haworth; Jane; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nicholls; Papa; Villette; life summary = The life and genius of Charlotte Brontë had long engaged my attention writing not a few of the chapters in Charlotte Brontë''s life which are life-long friend of Charlotte Brontë, who has freely placed at my Mrs. Gaskell''s "Memoir"--Charlotte Brontë''s Letters. Life at Home--Rumours of Marriage--Edits the Works of her Sisters "Villette" begun--Life and Letters whilst writing it--Great Mrs. Gaskell''s "Life of Charlotte Brontë" no sooner appeared than it took that was characteristic in her life and genius was still living, Mrs. Gaskell had necessarily to deal with many circumstances which affected reader of "Jane Eyre" knows what Charlotte Brontë herself thought of sentence or two these letters will be quite new to the readers of Mrs. Gaskell''s "Life:" come, God knows, with a thankful and joyful heart, glad of a day''s In a letter from Anne Brontë, written in January, 1848, at which time id = 12142 author = Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff) title = Sterne date = keywords = Burton; CHAPTER; Dr.; God; Hall; Journey; London; Mr.; Mrs.; Paris; Sentimental; Shandy; Shimei; Sterne; Toby; Tristram; Uncle; Yorick; York; Yorkshire; footnote; french; man; year summary = facts of Sterne''s life that is now ever likely to be recovered. father," says Sterne, "was a little, smart man, active to the last That Laurence Sterne passed the first eleven years of his life with probably not very interesting period of Sterne''s life, has pointed out _Tristram Shandy_, the master of Skelton Castle, at which Sterne was, Sterne''s reputation in later years may be inferred from the fact other, for Gray writes of Sterne, after _Tristram Shandy_ had made sentimentalism, the case would of course be different; but as for Mr. Sterne''s demands for sympathy in that department of his life and art, rate, certain that Sterne engaged at one time of his life in a rather continues Sterne, great man as he was, had, after all, not fared worse from the beginning of the next year onward Sterne''s life was little No doubt Sterne''s flourish in _Tristram Shandy_ about his id = 18645 author = Trollope, Anthony title = Thackeray date = keywords = Barry; Becky; Crawley; Dickens; Esmond; Fair; Fraser; George; Ivanhoe; John; Lord; Lyndon; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Pendennis; Pitt; Punch; Sir; Swift; Thackeray; Vanity; Yellowplush; good; man; tell; work summary = common to all readers to know not only what a great writer has written, The young man who makes the attempt knows that he must run the chance. Dickens already a great man when Thackeray was still a literary article on Thackeray''s works generally as they were then known. "Mr. Thackeray is now about thirty-seven years of age, of a good family, Thackeray was a man of no great power of the world of readers that a new magazine was to appear under Thackeray''s think it may be doubted whether Thackeray did bring himself to read the the world come to," said Thackeray out loud to the table, "when two men,"--whereas the young gentleman is, in truth, a very little man. the end of his long story should Thackeray have married his hero to so In speaking of Thackeray''s life I have said why and how it was that he id = 5978 author = Trollope, Anthony title = An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope date = keywords = Charles; Colonel; England; George; Harrow; Henry; House; Ireland; John; Lady; London; Mr.; Mrs.; Office; Post; Sir; Thackeray; american; book; english; good; irish; man; novel; time; work; year summary = he left in manuscript a completed novel, called _An Old Man''s Love_, years, and his Post Office work had taken him into every part of of life a young man should no doubt go home after his work, and spend of hunting,--neither the writing of books, nor the work of the Post author of the work in question now is, was my friend; but I think taskmaster, and who think that the man who works with his imagination think that I knew at the time that he was engaged on my novel. I do not think that more conscientious work was ever done by man. thinking men as to the work done by novelists. been written on my own work; and I think that now I well know where All those I think who have lived as literary men,--working daily as a feeling that a man who had spent his life in writing English novels id = 36714 author = Ward, Adolphus William, Sir title = Dickens date = keywords = Bleak; Charles; Christmas; Cloth; Copperfield; David; Dickens; Dombey; England; Forster; Hill; House; Household; John; Little; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oliver; Pickwick; Sketches; american; english; life; time; year summary = At the close of a letter addressed by Dickens to his friend John Forster, life, Charles Dickens, like the rest of the world, had his share of Dickens had a great liking, Dolly Varden has justly taken hold of the round very naturally took up some time; for the circuit of Dickens''s daily appears to me to be a fearful man." And as at all times in Dickens''s life, work pure and simple, in which Dickens in these years for the first time the other hand, _Bleak House_ was probably the first of Dickens''s works In truth, Dickens in _Bleak House_ for the first time secret from the general public, Dickens at the same time must have wished than Dickens was once more at work upon a new fiction. Dickens, it should be remembered, was at no time a man of many friends. The "Murder" was frequently read by Dickens not less than four times a id = 9820 author = Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title = A Writer''s Recollections — Volume 1 date = keywords = Arnold; Church; Clough; Doctor; England; Forster; Fox; London; Master; Matthew; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Newman; Oxford; Stanley; University; William; Wordsworth; Zealand; english; french summary = children of early days in Bath, of his father''s young successes and world, but in English life generally[1] arose, in the words of his best friend: "You can''t think how kind and gentle he was, the great love him now." And three years later, when "little Tom," on his eighth year of your Oxford life--nor without expressing the interest which I But another year of New Zealand life brought reconsideration. The letter was written to my father in New Zealand in the year 1848, as With every year of his life Matthew Arnold, besides three children--Jane, Matthew, and my father--married in that year, and letters written from India by William Arnold to my father in New Zealand a man to live his own life in a new and freer world. many years before his own death, in 1895, my father wrote of the friend who spent much time at Oxford fifteen years later. id = 9821 author = Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title = A Writer''s Recollections — Volume 2 date = keywords = Balfour; Church; Eleanor; Elsmere; England; Gladstone; Goschen; Italy; James; Lady; London; Lord; Morley; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Robert; Rome; Sir; book; english; french; italian; man; year summary = little son''s birth, and then ten days later the news of her death. force, in the hearts of men and women, the old, deep, human notes which 1884 that, at Admiral Maxse''s one night at dinner, I first saw Mr. Chamberlain, who was to play so great a part in the following years. A year later Mr. Lowell came back to London for a time in a private front room, what life would be like, now that the book was done! thirty years old, which I began to write to Mr. Gladstone a few days knew, been let for a while, some years earlier, to our old friends, Sir more generally read in the time to come than are most of the other great Those two days of endless talk in beautiful College rooms with men like