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Was the marriage plot a bunch of folks who schemed and conned their way into marriage? Hit play to find out.
How did Americans and Brits feel about Dickens' comedy? Eh...let's just say it was the best of comedy, it was the worst of comedy.
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Charles Dickens 9 Was Dickens A Good Family Man 18 Views
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Was Dickens a good family man? Either way, the man had ten kids...if he wasn't grumpy now and then, he wasn't human.
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens was dickins a good
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family man ah lash shmoop that's part of the internal
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conflict that dickens would have would have had with himself
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So on the one hand i think he felt himself
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to be a good parent in the sense that he
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put a roof over their head and he provided for
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ten children which is not easy and sort of kept
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him fed and all those things but in order to
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do that it meant neglecting them in a personal way
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because you had to constantly be writing constantly networking and
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making money My impression of it is that no he
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didn't have a terribly intimate relationship with any of his
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children My sense of it is that his children were
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somewhat disappointing just sort of intellectually and by natural talent
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I mean here is arguably the most eminent writer of
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a period of the half century on of the victorian
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period at large and you would want i think his
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his children to be politicians or to be famous writers
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in their own right and they just didn't become that
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I think he found it difficult to relate to them
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for that reason because he couldn't relate to them in
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the way that that he wanted teo which was through
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through writing and intellectualism he famously was not fun of
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his wife Or it ended up that way And i
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believe it was his sister in law who became infatuated
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with And then she actually passed away I think prematurely
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And the result of this was that his sister on
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his mind became sort of frozen in time as as
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this ideal woman to which no other woman could compare
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including his wife So that obsession i think feeds both
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the creative side of him in figuring some of his
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later you know female characters but also wreaked havoc on
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his family Happiness Because for his loyalties lay How did
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dick in st his children Who did dickens loved more
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than his wife How did dickens incorporate mary hog earth
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into his stories Ten kids wow that's a lot of 00:02:10.09 --> [endTime] dirty diapers
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