When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.