2. Charles Dickens [email_address] The Inimitable

3. What can we learn from Dickens and his work? How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?

4. View the next 7 slides then predict the setting (time and location) in which Dickens lived.

5. Dickens House Museum

7. City streets—people & places

12. Dickens lived during a period of contradictions.

18. child labor

19. Dickens—his life and works

21. Charles Dickens

22. “ Dickens’ greatest friendship was, from the beginning, with his audience.”

24. English literature, his creativity is rivaled only by Shakespeare's.” “ In all of

25. How did Dickens influence Victorian and modern Christmas traditions?

26. “ ..it was the Christmas stories of Dickens that rekindled the joy of Christmas in Britain and America.”

27. “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book….

28. to raise the Ghost of an Idea…

29. May it haunt their houses pleasantly,

30. And no one wish to lay it down.” Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

31. Literary Quotes

32. Bah Humbug!

33. "Mankind was my business.” Ignorance & Want

34. “ I wear the chains I forged in life.”