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  • Thumbnail for Sketches by Boz
    Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens...
    10 KB (1,263 words) - 22:28, 15 February 2024
  • (part of Sketches by Boz) "A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle" (1835) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Our Parish" (1835) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The...
    20 KB (2,043 words) - 16:33, 24 January 2024
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    age of 24, and he had published a collection of sketches on London life as Sketches by Boz. Publisher Chapman & Hall was projecting a series of "cockney...
    24 KB (2,751 words) - 05:33, 10 March 2024
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    Seven Dials, London (category Streets in the London Borough of Camden)
    his collection Sketches by Boz, Dickens remarks, The stranger who finds himself in the Dials for the first time...at the entrance of Seven obscure passages...
    26 KB (3,066 words) - 00:39, 17 March 2024
  • brief, isolated descriptions. Charles Dickens’ collection of vignette sketches Sketches by Boz, although not contributing to a broader plot, explore common...
    25 KB (2,626 words) - 05:48, 18 February 2024
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    journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces, published in 1836: Sketches by BozBoz being a family nickname...
    175 KB (18,601 words) - 00:18, 26 March 2024
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    the story was then published as "A Christmas Dinner" in Sketches by Boz (1836). "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton", another Christmas story...
    63 KB (7,506 words) - 01:12, 23 March 2024
  • Rookery (slum) (category Social history of London)
    lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Folly Ditch. In Sketches by Boz, Dickens described...
    10 KB (1,213 words) - 19:20, 22 January 2024
  • the Lintons; it appears in several works by Charles Dickens, namely Sketches by Boz, The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol (during the party at Fezziwig's)...
    3 KB (463 words) - 17:45, 7 March 2024
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    Skeleton suit (category History of clothing (Western fashion))
    over it, so as to give his legs the appearance of being hooked on, just under the armpits" (Sketches by Boz, 1836). Despite Dickens' assertions, skeleton...
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    wearing trousers of Border tartan, thus starting a fashion for checked clothing in Victorian London. In Sketches by Boz, a collection of short pieces published...
    8 KB (844 words) - 10:45, 26 November 2023
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    (1960), New York, Bramhall House ISBN 0-517-02962-6 Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz 1836: Tales: Ch 4, The Tuggses at Ramsgate Macassar Oil for the Hair...
    5 KB (543 words) - 19:23, 24 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Doctors' Commons
    descriptions of Doctors' Commons can be found in Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz and in David Copperfield in which Dickens called it a "cosey, dosey...
    9 KB (1,086 words) - 16:04, 20 November 2023
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    Gin palace (category Types of drinking establishment)
    the darkness and dirt we have just left…" in his Sketches by Boz. The design influenced many aspects of later Victorian pubs, even after gin had declined...
    5 KB (532 words) - 15:54, 11 January 2024
  • Damon and Pythias (category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia)
    cleared of involvement. Two clerks arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct in Charles Dickens's story "Making a Night of It" (in Sketches by Boz) allude...
    14 KB (2,006 words) - 21:55, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dickens's London
    Dickens's descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836. Dickens's first...
    10 KB (894 words) - 16:54, 1 October 2023
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    Vauxhall Gardens (category History of the London Borough of Lambeth)
    effect of the whole scene. Charles Dickens wrote of a daylight visit to Vauxhall Gardens, in Sketches by Boz, published in 1836: We paid our shilling at the...
    29 KB (3,625 words) - 11:17, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victorian literature
    one of the most popular and read authors of the world. Dickens began his literary career with Sketches by Boz (1833–1836) which were a collection of short...
    26 KB (3,039 words) - 14:54, 3 March 2024
  • Dickens' Sketches by Boz tale the Bloomsbury Christening Nicodemus Legend, the protagonist in the television series Legend Nicodemus, the deputy of the sheriff...
    3 KB (375 words) - 10:21, 10 May 2023
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    he subsequently appeared in several other major British sketch and situation comedy series of the period including Smack the Pony, Absolutely Fabulous...
    17 KB (579 words) - 01:52, 8 February 2024
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