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Title: The life and writings of Charles Dickens: a woman's memorial volume
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Novelists, English
Publisher: Boston, B.B. Russell San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft & co. (etc, etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ce mouldered away. CHAPTER III. CLIMBING THE LADDER. Williss Description of Dickens. —His Inimitable Humor. —Emersons Criticism.—Hugh Millers Opinion. — London Review.—Pickwick Papers. — Sam WellersValentine. — The Ivy Green. —Death in the Prison. O spirits gay, and kindly heart 1Precious the blessings ye impart I Joanna Baillie. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. —Prov, xvii. 22. ILIGENCE gains its reward. CharlesDickens was not weary in effort, and hebelieved in climbing the ladder round byround. So he was faithful as a reportertill he found himself able to fill a different,and, as far as regards fame and pecuniary reward, anadvanced position. Of those reportorial days, our ownN. P. Willis wrote once, and described his first meetingwith Charles Dickens. He states that he was invited bythe publisher, Macrone, to visit Newgate; and proceedsto say: — I willingly agreed, never having seen this fLiraousprison; and, after I was seated in the cab, he said that 46
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CHARLES DICKENS. 47 he was to pick up a young paragraphist for * The Morn-ing Chronicle, who wished to write a description of it.In the most crowded part of Holborn, within a dooror two of the Bull and Mouth Inn (the great startingand stopping place of the stage-coaches), we pulled upat the entrance of a large building used for lawj^erschambers. Not to leave me sitting in the rain, Macroneasked nue to dismount with him. I followed by a longflight of stairs to an upper story, and was ushered intoan uncarpeted and bleak-looking room, with a deal ta-ble, two or tliree chairs, a few books, a small boy, andMr. Dickens,.for the contents. I was only struck at firstwith one thing (and I made a memorandum of it thatevening, as the strongest instance I had ever seen ofEnglish obsequiorusness to employers), — the degree towhich the poor author was overpowered with the honorof his publishers visit! I remember saying to myself,as I sat down on a rickety chair, My good fellow, ifyou were in Ameri

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