It has been stated that Charles Dickens began life as a lawyer, got
tired of the dull routine, and turned to literature. This is
erroneous, for he never had even a chance of becoming a lawyer,
either in the higher grade of outer barrister, or counsel learned
in the law, or in the lower, but often more lucrative, class of
attorney. As stated in the book, this work attempts to provide an
accurate sketch of Charles Dickens literary and personal history
stating plain facts, introducing some of his correspondence never
before printed, and adding such anecdotes and traits of character
to illustrate his double position as a Man of Letters and Man of
the People. Within this work, the admiration of the ability of the
necessarily rapid tributes to the genius and worth of Mr. Dickens
is expressed, which appeared in the American newspapers. In the
most aristocratic country in the world, Charles Dickens stood, not
merely among but above all his contemporaries as a Man of the
People. Scott, Bulwer, Macaulay, Thackeray, and others who taught
great truths through the press, either were of high family descent
or had received the best education that Universities could bestow.
Their writings are crowded with references to the classic authors
of their youth. Dickens, son of an obscure Government clerk, whose
pedigree no one has cared to trace, received only such an education
as, free of cost, every State in our Union bestows upon its
children. It has been argued by great scholars, that Shakespeare
was familiar not only with classical but modern European
literature; but Dickens was master of one language that which is
spoken, not alone in his island-home, but in Asia, in Australia,
and most of all, in our United States. He knew, and was proud in
the knowledge, that for every one reader he had at home, there were
fifty here.
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