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Charles Dickens and Popular Culture
My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.
David Copperfield, chapter 4
Dickens drew upon many sources for his writings: from his own life and experiences, from his observations of his fellow man, and from literature and the theatre. This exhibition looks at the inspiration Dickens drew from his youthful readings of popular literature and exposure to the theatre, and how, in due course, his own output, and the characters he created, fed into popular culture through theatrical, literary and other adaptations and plagiarisms.
There is no charge to view this exhibition
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