Hey, there! Log in / Register

Dickens loved Boston...

By Michael Kerpan on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 10:43pm

... but the rest of the country ... not so much.

http://wgbhnews.org/post/charles-dickens-wasnt-impressed-america-he-love...

Not only does he paint a rather dire depiction of (most of) America in his American Notes, but also in his novel Martin Chuzzlewit (which also features a template for the relationship of Frodo and Sam Gamgee, as they roam the darker corners of Middle Earth).

Topics: 
History
Free tagging: 
literature


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Comments

By adamg on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 11:00pm.

Was the John White Webster murder trial - in which a Brahmin got so annoyed at a Harvard Medical School professor constantly asking for the money he was owed that he killed and dismembered him (poor George Parkman, whose name lives on in the Parkman House). It was one of the first trial-of-the-century trials in America.

up
Voting closed 0

By MC Slim JB on Tue, 12/08/2015 - 1:03am.

of Minas Morgul. "Garn!", ptooey.

up
Voting closed 0