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Thank you We sneak Charles dickins How did dickins dad
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allow shmoop one of the things that dickens was very
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well known for in which brought him a lot of
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income was public speaking and not so much public speaking
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in the way that we might think of it like
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a sort of speech and not a speech for its
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own sake Most of the time what he was doing
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was reading or reenacting scenes from his novels The murder
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of nancy in oliver twist was by far the biggest
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crowd please her crowd pleaser In this sense you got
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a response Not that it was happy he writes in
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his letters and other witnesses testified that he would just
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absolutely right down the house every single time that he
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enacted this particular scene And not surprisingly the way in
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which he did that was so over the top that
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exacted an enormous physical toll from him every time he
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did it So towards the end of his life again
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in an effort to raise much needed money he went
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on a lecture circuit doing this and supposedly yet another
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reenactment of the scene really lead to the downfall of
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his health Somewhat premature Death were to remember that people
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weren't living regularly until you know into their eighties or
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something In the victorian period especially around london we often
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hear the term london fog So london fog for example
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was not fog that london fogs actually pollution And so
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when people talked about london fog or pea soup fog
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what they weren't wise slit from people's chimneys and from
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factories and so forth that would get stuck in the
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streets of london much like flog get stuck in places
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like l a or beijing today Then we just sit
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there and people would would inhale it I'm sure that
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also contributed to being not terribly healthy What activity took
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a major toll on dick itself What was london fog
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