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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.
How has Dickens impacted culture today? We don't know about you, but we watch A Muppet's Christmas Carol every year, so...that's probably the answe...
Charles Dickens 6 How Did Dickens Write His Books 106 Views
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How did Dickens write his books? With a pen and paper. Duh. Okay, maybe that's not what that question means. Let's check out the video and find out.
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickins how did chickens right
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his books Ah la shmoop so he absolutely wrote them
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as he went along famously chickens was always flying on
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the seat of his pants In fact he would often
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write novel simultaneous and that he'd be coming out with
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one chapter over here and coming out the next chapter
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of the next book over here at the same time
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i mean dickens himself as a parent had an enormous
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family think he had ten children s a little very
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large family on how to sport mall and again kind
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of famously or infamously he and his wife did not
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get along a cz children did not end up being
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a successful as he would've liked so we couldn't exactly
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depend on them to kind of keep the household running
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that was all up to him So for example the
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christmas carol was written in very dire straits dickinson wass
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on the verge of debt and really had to very
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quickly raise a ton of money So in a way
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the christmas carol was a sort of invention of his
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to get amount of that scrape that's one of the
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reasons why it's a novella short Because he had to
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get it out very quickly in order to make the
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money desperately need it So he's definitely writing as he
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went along And really not able to write too far
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ahead for these financial reasons How did dickens approach writing
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What financial problem was always looming over dickins Shmoop dot 00:01:31.661 --> [endTime] com slash finance somebody send diggins a lake
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