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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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