“I have also a notion that any number of bundles of the driest legal…” — Charles Dickens

“I have also a notion that any number of bundles of the driest legal chaff that ever was chopped would be cheaply expended for one really meritorious engraving.”

Humorously asserting the enduring public worth of visual art · Speech, Artists' Benevolent Fund, London, 8 May 1858

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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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