5/13/2023 0 Comments Dickens by Peter Ackroyd![]() ![]() While working onto eighth instalment back in London, Dickens was written by a horse and was so shocked by the incident which occasioned “a nervous seizure of the throat” that he travelled to Brighton to recuperate and work on the next part of the book – a novel in which Mr Dombey is thrown from a horse and kicked senseless. Yet in this writing, as with many of this works, his life imposed itself. ![]() ![]() In his study overlooking the lake, Dickens – a man of curious personal superstition who preferred to be away from London on the publication of any new work – took out a copy of Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, randomly pointed to the printed page and read: “What a work is likely to turn out! Let us begin it!”Īnd so prompted, he began what was to become Dombey and Son, published in monthly parts from October through to April 1848. It had been two years since his previous novel, but these last weeks present walking in the hills of Switzerland above Lausanne had allowed him to sketch out the framework of a book. It was an afternoon in June 1846 when Charles Dickens finally broke the writing block which had been troubling him. ![]()
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