When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
Dickens belongs to the English people.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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.
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