Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Great Jennens Case written by Laurence Ince and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranger than fiction and more sensational than a Wilkie Collins novel - this is an unbelievable account revolving around the life of William Jennens, justly described as the richest commoner in England. When William Jennens died in 1798 his estate was valued at well over 1,000,000. Three aristocratic families had the most valid claims on the Jennens estate but that did not stop hundreds of fortune hunters coming forward to voice their claims. For over a hundred years these Jennens claimants battled with the inheriting families to claim the fortune left by William the Miser. Lunacy, destitution and bankruptcy were the rewards for many of the people who believed themselves to be a Jennens relative with a claim to the fortune. It was thought that Charles Dickens used the Great Jennens Case as one of the ideas behind Jarndyce v Jarndyce in his novel Bleak House. But where did Dickens get his information from and who was the real William Jennens?
Download or read book Great Jennens Case written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bleak House written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the center of Bleak House is a long-standing legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which arose because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirize the English judicial system. Although the legal profession criticized Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, culminating in the promulgation of legal reform in the 1870s.As always, Dickens drew on many real people and places, but imaginatively transformed them into his novel (see the list of characters below for the supposed inspiration of individual characters).Although not a character, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case is a vital part of the novel. It is believed to have been inspired by a series of real-life Chancery cases involving wills, including Charles Day and William Jennens, and Charlotte Smith's father-in-law, Richard Smith.A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of acompany of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring underany suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though theshining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thoughtthe judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate.There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate ofprogress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the"parsimony of the public," which guilty public, it appeared, had beenuntil lately bent in the most determined manner on by no meansenlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed--I believe byRichard the Second, but any other king will do as well.This seemed to me too profound a joke to be inserted in the body ofthis book or I should have restored it to Conversation Kenge or toMr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think it must haveoriginated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an aptquotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets:
Download or read book The D Case written by Carlo Fruttero and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powieść "The D case" zawiera w treści pełny tekst "Mystery of Edwin Drood" Charles'a Dickensa.
Download or read book Next to Nature written by Ronald Blythe and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour . . . Bliss' STEPHEN FRY 'A capacious work that contains multitudes . . . a work to amble through, seasonally, relishing the vivid dashes of colour and the precision and delicacy of the descriptions' THE SPECTATOR 'My favourite read of the year . . . warm, funny and moving' SUNDAY TIMES 'A writer whose pages you turn and then turn back immediately to re-read, relish and get by heart' SUSAN HILL, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Ronald Blythe lived at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home was Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries. Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year's Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in the village church, Next to Nature invites us to witness a simple life richly lived. With gentle wit and keen observation Blythe meditates on his life and faith, on literature, art and history, and on our place in the landscape. It is a celebration of one of our greatest nature writers, and an unforgettable ode to the English countryside.
Download or read book BLEAK HOUSE Historical Thriller Based on True Events written by Charles Dickens and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 2025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "BLEAK HOUSE (Historical Thriller Based on True Events)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. At the centre of Bleak House is the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, inspired by a real-life Chancery case, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills, which than led to numerous family feuds, schemes and murder. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Download or read book The Trial for Murder Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find no parallel or response in a listener's internal life, and might be suspected or laughed at. A truthful traveller, who should have seen some extraordinary creature in the likeness of a sea-serpent, would have no fear of mentioning it; but the same traveller, having had some singular presentiment, impulse, vagary of thought, vision (so-called), dream, or other remarkable mental impression, would hesitate considerably before he would own to it. To this reticence I attribute much of the obscurity in which such subjects are involved. We do not habitually communicate our experiences of these subjective things as we do our experiences of objective creation. The consequence is, that the general stock of experience in this regard appears exceptional, and really is so, in respect of being miserably imperfect.In what I am going to relate, I have no intention of setting up, opposing, or supporting, any theory whatever. I know the history of the Bookseller of Berlin, I have studied the case of the wife of a late Astronomer Royal as related by Sir David Brewster, and I have followed the minutest details of a much more remarkable case of Spectral Illusion occurring within my private circle of friends. It may be necessary to state as to this last, that the sufferer (a lady) was in no degree, however distant, related to me. A mistaken assumption on that head might suggest an explanation of a part of my own case, --but only a part, --which would be wholly without foundation. It cannot be referred to my inheritance of any developed peculiarity, nor had I ever before any at all similar experience, nor have I ever had any at all similar experience sinc
Download or read book Stour Seasons written by Ronald Blythe and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time that John Constable made its waterways and rural landscapes famous, the Stour Valley in East Anglia has been a haunt for artists, writers, poets, musicians and gardeners. Ronald Blythe perpetuates this rich artistic heritage from an ancient farmhouse, with its three-acre naturalistic garden, that has been a gathering place for literary and artistic friends for almost seventy years. Stour Seasons is the tenth collection of his Word From Wormingford columns that have appeared on the back page of the Church Times for over 20 years. Britain’s greatest living rural writer observes in rich detail the gifts that each season of the year brings and in doing so, evokes a world of beauty, friendship and wonder at the simple pleasures that make everyday life the miracle that it is.
Download or read book The Trial for Murder Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story wonderfully combines a murder trial and apparitions - or more plainly, ghosts. It describes a moment in the life of a bored bank official who has an alarming experience. A great story, smoothly presented by the pen of Dickens. (American accent narration.)
Download or read book A Jennings Family Genealogy written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy and a history of the Jennings family in America who are descendants of Charles Lawson Jinings born about 1752-55 and died 5 Sep 1835 probably in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Bonafield.
Download or read book Showell s Dictionary of Birmingham written by Walter Showell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham" (A History and Guide, Arranged Alphabetically) by Walter Showell, Thomas T. Harman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Dickens Encyclopaedia RLE Dickens written by Arthur L. Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels and to all the characters and places mentioned in the novels. There are also useful explanatory notes on allusions and phrases.
Download or read book The Trial for Murder written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. Yet he has also received criticism from writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, who list sentimentality, implausible occurrence and grotesque characters as faults in his oeuvre.The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public.
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Frederic George Kitton and published by London : Caxton Pub., [190-?]. This book was released on 1902 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories, and is perhaps the best known outside of "A Christmas Carol."
Download or read book Queer Things about London written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Birmingham written by Thomas T. Harman and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
