Knowing Dickens
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 129 larger house, the tension between the house as a safely grounded place and as an imprisoning container, ...
130 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens seems to have maintained his perspective; a healthy irony is evident in his announcement to Forster ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 131 while Dickens struggled to write Dombey and Son. By this time there were six Dickens children; Catherin ...
132 KNOWING DICKENS sins most egregiously in his dismissal of daughters. When Dickens’s grandly named fourth son, Alfred D’Orsay ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 133 withered,” and dreaming up cozy devices for his use; she hides the evidence before he returns (DS 23). ...
134 KNOWING DICKENS household in Dombey and Son, Sol Gill’s shop-home in the City, is ship-shape, snug, and ready to create a sa ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 135 value of a man he tended to disparage early on with comments about his sharp nose and his unimaginative ...
136 KNOWING DICKENS I arrived there. But it is a broad highway notwithstanding, and I have trod it slowly and patiently” (7.617) ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 137 Finding and interviewing appropriate inmates was one of Dickens’s pri- mary tasks; not many women would ...
138 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens told the matrons of the Home only as much as he felt necessary for them to know. This practice, some ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 139 lying; if she acted up later on, he would claim that he had had doubts about her from the first. Truthf ...
140 KNOWING DICKENS the fact that they did not own their clothes—“They have a great pride in the state of their clothes, and the ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 141 absconded; in full detective mode, he invented an elaborate explanation of how they had managed to get ...
142 KNOWING DICKENS shooing donkeys from the tiny lawn speaks of all the human disorder she works to keep out of her little doma ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 143 of household disorder—like washing in cheese-plates and breakfasting from laundry baskets—would take a ...
144 KNOWING DICKENS already writing to Austin from Broadstairs: “NO WORKMEN ON THE PREMISES along of my not hearing from you!! I ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 145 of the workmen every night. They make faces at me, and won’t do anything” (6.495). His inability to mak ...
146 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens’s love of household mirrors was not an uncommon Victorian preference, but he seems to have had a spe ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 147 up the shame and humiliation of her early experience, and to give her a place in the world authorized b ...
148 KNOWING DICKENS the legal system or to endure any “sweeping, nor scouring, nor cleaning, nor repairing going on about me” is ...
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