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Followed by. David Copperfield. Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death.
- Charles Dickens, Julius Seybt
- 1846
Aug 14, 2024 · An analysis of the To The Queen poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
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5 days ago · Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens’s (1812–70) novels generally appeared in serial form in popular newspapers. Usually he took his subjects and characters from contemporary English society, but in this novel he created one of the most enduring and pessimistic English–language portrayals of the French Revolution, particularly the ...
3 days ago · Can you answer questions about Alfred, Lord Tennysons The Charge of the Light Brigade? - test your knowledge in this quiz! (Author pennie1478)
3 days ago · Dickens had a complicated relationship with Jews in Great Britain. On the one hand, he created one of the most hateful Jewish characters in literary history, Oliver Twist ‘s Fagin (“a very old shrivelled Jew whose villainous looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted old hair”), as well as unflattering portraits of ...
4 days ago · Ada Byron, aged seven, by Alfred d'Orsay, 1822, Somerville College, Oxford Lovelace did not have a close relationship with her mother. She was often left in the care of her maternal grandmother Judith, Hon. Lady Milbanke, who doted on her.
5 days ago · Discover the origins of the French art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting. A remarkable presentation of 130 works includes a rare reunion of many of the paintings first featured in that now-legendary exhibition.
