Evidence: | ?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would confine an ordinary-sized horse to his stall for a week. Whether it arises from the ?influentials?, or from close application, or from worry, or from the wind cholic, to quote King Arthur, I know not; but this I know-that surely against my will, much to my disappointment, here I am, and in a gloomy and miserable state, here I must remain.? |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: Tuesday | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Furnivals Inn |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journalist/ Novelist |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Fielding |
Title: | The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great |
Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12077 | |
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Author: | Charles Dickens | |
Editor: | Madeline House | |
Title: | The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 228 | |
Additional comments: | Graham Storey ed. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition. |
Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12077, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Letter to T.J. Culliford [CD?s maternal great-uncle.] [Note 3: ?In Fielding?s The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, I, iii, King Arthur says ?I feel a sudden pain across my breast. | Nor Know I whether it proceed from love | Or the wind cholic.?? |
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