Charles Dickens documentary

Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Charles Dickens documentary
2006

[@franknemeth7430]

Anytime I want to escape the madness of American society - I turn to Charles Dickens never fails .

[@Delicious_J]

Pshht everytime I want to escape the madness of British society I open Charles Dickens

[@rmp7400]

Because American society ....is captive to the unholy grip of the very same Central Bankers of the City of London that Dickens powerfully protested through his gifted literary accounts.

[@a.d.5952]

...and American society is a mess. I am happy I fled in 1999, never to return. I can't imagine living in the United States. I do love the USA of my childhood (1960s) but that nation vanished long ago. Now it is sheer madness.

[@mckavitt13]

​@@a.d.5952 Ditto stories, yours & mine.

[@mckavitt13]

You said it!

[@martnal]

Finally, 50 years after being forced to read Great Expectations, I am thoroughly enjoying reading his work. I am currently on Oliver Twist.

[@HansDelbruck53]

It's time to get off him.

[@cwptrsn]

I did the same myself and have just finished. I skipped rereading Great Expectations though, mever my favorite.

[@susanyates4233]

My Mother told me that my great grandfather, John Davis heard Charles Dickens in The Leather Bottle, Cobham. He lived in Rochester, before going into the Workhouse. My late husband trained in the dockyard at Sheerness then transferring to the dockyard at Chatham. Thank you for this video.

[@deedeedodo8092]

I used to work at the Leather Bottle and even stayed there for a birthday treat one year. I loved it and tried to stay awake as long as I could incase I could encounter the ghost that reportedly haunts it 🤣

[@WiseQuotesLS]

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.„ _Charles Dickens

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

Being a Londoner myself, Dickens has always been one of my very favourite authors. Thank you for posting this.

[@sonalikarmakar9317]

Charles Dickens was a true social novelist

[@louise-yo7kz]

Perhaps the greatest Victorian novelist

[@alcoholfree6381]

I have read all of Charles Dickens and am getting ready to start an old, illustrated book of his: Dombey and Sons. His books are remarkable. If you compare his writing to Stephen King’s output you will know why Harold Bloom loved Dickens and never read King who he called a modern penny-dreadful writer. Dickens is amazing and everyone would enjoy reading him although the modern reader may have to read longer and more focused. This documentary is enjoyable! Thanks

[@viggycat8592]

Thank you! I couldn’t agree more!

[@simonedwards9450]

I love both Dickens and King. I’d disagree with Harold Bloom. King is a great writer, someone who has been a major influence on me. Harold Bloom was nothing but an ignorant moron who was in reality a sexual deviant. Will never listen to him when it comes to discussing writing. He doesn’t even have any idea what he’s talking about

[@vanessamay3689]

Have only read The Curiosity Shop which was my first Dickens book. Now I know what influenced his writing this makes it special.A great novel ❤

[@hirakaiko5570]

Different categories to be fair, King is genre fiction, Dickens is literary fiction. King is nuts IRL tho so maybe it's that.

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

Exquiste narration….. poignant images…. thank you for posting. Miss jenny

[@robnewman6101]

One day, when returning from France on June 19th 1865. All of Charles Dickens's Railway Nightmares came true, until he was involved in a terrific train crash accident at Staplehurst in Kent. Ten people died in the accident. The accident would prop Dickens to write his finest Ghost Story called The Signalman.

[@deedeedodo8092]

I didn't know that, thank you for sharing. I live very close to the staplehurst/Medway area and love learning even more about this great man 👍

[@robnewman6101]

You're welcome.

[@robnewman6101]

Have you heard of The Railway Policeman? I have the book of it.

[@deedeedodo8092]

@@robnewman6101 no, I'll definitely have to check it out though!

[@robnewman6101]

The Railway Policeman. The Story of the Constable on the Track. By J. R. WHITBREAD.

[@joansavage1857]

Thank you for a fascinating documentary….

[@steveosullivan5262]

That debtors prison must have been hideous. It would mark any child. Such a well told story of one of my favorite writers. I knew so little about him, thank you for this excellent video. The Hograth family seems worth a story of their own.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

These documentaries are truly capital and exemplary work! 😲 Beautifully narrated and profoundly well researched, I discovered several facts not known to me as a Dickens life long admirer. My sincere thanks and God bless you sir 😊

[@patriciajrs46]

I like the introductory music, thank you. These looks at history and how people thought, is quite interesting.

[@robnewman6101]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. December 19th 1843.

[@traciebecker6669]

Wonderfully done documentary. Thank you

[@user-sf3fe4bh2q]

I have always been SO SORRY that he hadn't finished " The Mystery of Edwin Drood"!

[@LorettaKayfeld]

Thank you for this documentary. It is was so beautifully narrated. I believe Charles Dickens was also very in interested in magic and would give performances of magic to children on a Sunday afternoon l happen to have one of his magic programs we here he produced shiny sixpenies from a Christmas pudding. I have enjoyed all of his books, his characters are so vital and filled with curiousity. Thank you once again

[@dancingdingo]

I lived on the same street that Charles Dickens lived as a kid! Bayham Street in Camden, London. I lived across the street from where he grew up. It has since been demolished and council housing is now in its place. I found this out at the local library. I was astonished. 😮 I went to the George Inn and Pub in Southwark for my birthday celebrations too! I'm a massive CD fan in case you haven't guessed by now.😜

[@vicnurse5]

Thank you a wonderful story and photographs of the man and his times.

[@jessicaallen2427]

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[@MarciaMatthews]

Pickwick Papers was popular serial. Inspired Louisa May Alcott and me.

[@clah399]

Great account of Dickens... Thanks

[@robnewman6101]

Robert Peel (1788-1850) was the Founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.

[@dadodydo]

Great documentary, walking in the great author's footsteps. I love Dickens.

[@bubblehead78]

Mr. Dickens is perhaps my favorite author.

[@flxtuoh3327]

Fantastic presentation...titles of accompanying background music, please...

[@tomgeorgearts]

I have often wondered why so many Dickens characters have bizarre and comic names, even if the story is not comic. I like them, and it makes them memorable, but I have never been able to find any kind of literary explanation of why Dickens does this. It's surely one of the most recognisable aspects of his style.

[@stevenclarke2559]

thanks enjoyed v much

[@nononouh]

As part of your project have you considered sharing the huge dictionary of literary biography? Some are uploaded, but most not!

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

I have not heard of that until now. Wow, 1600 authors in 375 volumes if I'm reading it right. I scanned through it. I didn't realize there were so many lost to time. I see Gutenberg has it in pdf form. I'll reference it for authors I do bios on. Thanks!

[@jovialneha]

Thank you 🌟

[@krishnantampi5665]

Very good video so no comment it's sharp and to the point good voice and pleased😄 to hear Dickens is immortal words reverberation is still hunting the memory of evry reader and the trader. That's all great man he was let him rest in peace sky

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

Love this documentary.

[@tilakbhandari3466]

great work

[@loonylinda]

i really enjoyed this thanks

[@robnewman6101]

Regin of Queen Victoria 1837-1901.

[@gabrielacobian9137]

The greatest britain has ever had

[@edwinawareing2395]

I totally agree with you Gabriel , a wonderful writer. 🖊

[@zharapatterson]

There's Another Charles Dickens Documentary I think you should upload made by the BBC maybe in 2002 or 2003 named Dickens or named uncovering the real Charles Dickens presented by Peter Ackroyd, Starring Anton Lesser as Charles Dickens, and Miriam Margolyes as Catherine Dickens.

[@jonathangeddes9786]

Bad piano... goodbye 😢

[@jackwegener3484]

It's your loss.

[@yersiniapestis6049]

What's that music in the background?

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 28:32

[@lukasmiller486]

How many of his books have you read? Mine are 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Great Expectations 3. David Copperfield 4. A Christmas Carol 5. Nicholas Nickleby

[@garyproffitt5941]

Time were hard Charles Dickens reciting 10 years old and I believe in placed procedure Charles Dickens did not go to school. The City of London of big ships and Saint Pauls Cathedral dominates everything for ship building and the old father Thames and pity for thee debtors Prison and remembering works The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations.

[@jestermoon]

Shiver my timbers 🎉 3:29 Stay Safe Stay Safe and Stay Free 4:02 ❤

[@robnewman6101]

Sir Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) best known for as His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington. Became a Prime Minister in 1828.

[@robnewman6101]

Interesting.

[@crazycathostel5544]

❤️

[@robnewman6101]

Oliver Twist. David Copperfield.

[@kieranmclaughlin8920]

Means nothing to me about my life... Didn't then and doesn't now...

[@forrestdupre87]

Now Do H. G. Wells!!!

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Here's something on Wells: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZaXZqFjoJmKfsU

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

He stipulated in his will that upon his death, his horses should be shot. They were. I have hated his work ever since!

[@normlor]

I LOVED DICKENS' WRITING ESPECIALLY "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" I MUST HAVE READ THIS STORY 500 TIMES AND WATCHED MOVIES AND AUDIOBOOKS THE SAME. BUT LOST A GREAT AMOUNT OF RESPECT WHEN I FOUND OUT HE BELIEVED OUR (CANADIAN) INUIT ATE FRANKLIN'S CREW WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE. BUT FOUND IT ALL LIES WHEN HIS TWO SHIPS WERE FOUND!!!!

[@MarciaMatthews]

Also see The Dickens Museum kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3Kqq6Whm9aIibs

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

I love it!

[@crazycathostel5544]

😘

[@bonnymcdermott1240]

Love this subject but this dialogue was boringly slow so didnt finish

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

The next 4 will be different presenters in different styles. Stay tuned 📺📺

[@itamardias17]

@@AuthorDocumentaries Boring? Well... I love your videos.

[@deedeedodo8092]

It was just the right timing for me, sometimes the narrators speak so quickly I have to keep backtracking to take it all in. This suited me much better.

[@margaretr5701]

No need to complain, you can change the speed of delivery to your preference.

[@tarnopol]

Is that Dikkens with two k’s, the noted Dutch author?

[@cruachankeith]

A 'Charles Dickens documentary' with no mention of 'A Christmas Carol' is a bloody joke. why?????

[@robnewman6101]

The Lifestyle of the Victorian Policeman was particularly harsh and the pay was poor.

[@llwyde1104]

This film is informative but glosses over the treatment of his wife and his duplicity regarding his affair... talk's cheap Charles! Action is what counts...but he was some writer.!!

[@seanwebb605]

This is dull.

[@peterchaloner2877]

The Zulu Dickens is of course indignant that-- solely because of White Privilege-- the works of the Zulu polymath remain unrecognised compared with Dickens' output.

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

Charles Dickens was not the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He didn't even improve it--he hurriedly watered down an existing manuscript for popular consumption, to avoid impending debt. Then he concocted a theatrical lie about supposedly writing it in a fit of inspiration, "walking the black streets of London many a night." The evidence can be found in my paper, entitled "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," which can be downloaded from the link below, or it can be found by searching on the paper's title on Academlia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

This is very interesting. I'll give it a read. If evidence exists I'm open to it.

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

Absolutely untrue.

[@alcoholfree6381]

Give me a break. Why moderns have to do everything possible to tear down others is beyond me! Next you’ll discover that Santa Claus, a white entitled fat guy who was gender nonspecific, really wrote all of Dickens and 50% of Shakespeare. A better thing for you to do is out-write Dickens. I will read it but really do something constructive on your own. Please.

[@autumn5852]

@@jacquelineharrod6386 what’s absolutely untrue?

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

@@autumn5852 His not being the author of "A Christmas Carol", a stupid and untruthful slur.