CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens
REASON: Is it possible to get through winter without pulling out a volume of Dickens? What a desperate, weary, chilly world his characters inhabit! It is enough to make the pages freeze mid-turn.
“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.”-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
If you missed My Top Six Cold Weather Writers, go here.
For Honorable Mention: Christina Rossetti, go here.
Thanks to Tom Gething for reminding me that Charles Dickens deserves a place on my list!
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i agree. He often put his stories in the colder times of the year! 🙂
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WOW!!!!!
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Yes, and even the others often seem as if they should be set in winter…
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Yup! 🙂
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Oh absolutely. Because even in summertime in those times, Britain was cold, drafty, misty, drizzly, patch worked, disease-ridden and threadbare. Dickens is a hardy perennial but especially fun in WInter!
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So true. Whilst Dickens never goes out of season, his stories feel particularly at home in Winter.
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