SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens_SAT写作

SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens

　　After living briefly abroad in Italy Dickens travelled to Switzerland ; it was here he began work on Dombey and Son. This and David Copperfield mark a significant artistic break in Dickenss career as his novels became more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early works.

　　Philanthropy

　　In May 1846 Angela Burdett Coutts, heir to the Coutts banking fortune, approached Dickens about setting up a home for the redemption of fallen women from the working class. Coutts envisioned a home that would replace the punitive regimes of existing institutions with a reformative environment conducive to education and proficiency in domestic household chores. After initially resisting, Dickens eventually founded the home, named Urania Cottage, in the Lime Grove section of Shepherds Bush, which he was to manage for ten years, setting the house rules and reviewing the accounts and interviewing prospective residents.Emigration and marriage were central to Dickens agenda for the women on leaving Urania Cottage, from which it is estimated that about 100 women graduated between 1847 and 1859.

　　Middle years

　　In late November 1851, Dickens moved into Tavistock House where he would write Bleak House , Hard Times and Little Dorrit . It was here he indulged in the amateur theatricals which are described in Forsters Life. In 1856, the income he was earning from his writing allowed him to buyGads Hill Place in Higham, Kent. As a child, Dickens had walked past the house and dreamed of living in it. The area was also the scene of some of the events of Shakespeares Henry IV, Part 1 and this literary connection pleased him.