“I decline to present the artist to the notice of the public as a…” — Charles Dickens

“I decline to present the artist to the notice of the public as a grown-up child, or as a strange, unaccountable, moon-stricken person, waiting helplessly in the street of life.”

Rejecting the stereotype of artists as helpless or impractical · Speech, Artists' General Benevolent Institution, London, 29 March 1862

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Charles Dickens

About Charles Dickens

7 February 1812–9 June 1870

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…

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