Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in a modest terraced house at 1 Mile End Terrace in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The second of eight children born to John and Elizabeth Dickens, his arrival came during a time of naval activity and modest aspirations in a bustling port town. His father, John, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was a genial, improvident man whose love for literature,…
“They represent what is above all price, what can be stated in no arithmetical figures, and what is one of the great needs of the human soul, encouraging sympathy.”
Neighbourhood:
Light Verse Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Spirituality
John Stuart Blackie entered the world on a bright summer day, 28 July 1809, in a modest house on Charlotte Street in Glasgow, Scotland. The eldest son of Alexander Blackie, a Kelso-born banker who would later manage the Commercial Bank in Aberdeen, and his wife Helen Stodart, the boy was born into a family of solid middle-class respectability amid the bustling industrial heart of Scotland. His early years were marked…
“A man should know something of everything and everything of something.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
