SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens_SAT写作

SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens

　　Catherine Hogarth Dickens by Samuel Lawrence .

　　The success of these sketches led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymours engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series or sketches, hired Phiz to provide the engravings to enhance the story. The resulting story was the The Pickwick Papers with the final instalment selling 40,000 copies.In November 1836 Dickens accepted the job of editor of Bentleys Miscellany, a position he held for three years, until he fell out with the owner. In 1836 as he finished the last instalments of The Pickwick Papers he began writing the beginning instalments ofOliver Twistwriting as many as 90 pages a monthwhile continuing work on Bentleys, writing four plays, the production of which he oversaw. Oliver Twist, published in 1838, became one of Dickens better known stories, with dialogue that transferred well to the stage and more importantly, it was the first Victorian with a child protagonist.

　　An 1839 portrait of a young Charles Dickens byDaniel Maclise

　　On 2 April 1836, after a one year engagement during which he wrote The Pickwick Papers, he marriedCatherine Thomson Hogarth , the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk, Kent, they returned to lodgings at Furnivals Inn.The first of ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set uphome in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, from 25 March 1837 until December 1839. Dickenss younger brother Frederick and Catherines 17-year-old sister Mary moved in with them. Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died in his arms after a brief illness in 1837. Dickens idealised her and is thought to have drawn on memories of her for his later descriptions of Rose Maylie, Little Nell and Florence Dombey. He grief was so great that he was unable to make the deadline for the June instalment of Pickwick Papers and had to cancel the Oliver Twist instalment that　month as well.At the same time, his success as a novelist continued, Nicholas Nickleby , The Old Curiosity Shop and, finally, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty as part of the Master Humphreys Clock series all published in monthly instalments before being made into books.First visit to the United States