Dickens of a Look Down Our Way and Back Again ; Chris Upton Follows Charles Dickens's Journeys to the Midlands, an Area in the Main He Liked

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Had they existed in the middle of the 19th century, tourist information centres would not have welcomed a visit from Charles Dickens with open arms. The great man was quixotic, impressionable, opinionated and (worst of all) influential.

If he took exception to a place then the whole world would know it. The town of Stafford, for one, suffered from the poison of Dickens's pen for half a century.

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Dickens of a Look Down Our Way and Back Again ; Chris Upton Follows Charles Dickens's Journeys to the Midlands, an Area in the Main He Liked

Alternatively, should he be impressed with what he saw, Dickens could bestow the kind of global publicity you could not buy. Luckily for the Midlands (omitting the county town of Staffordshire) he did on the whole like what he saw.

Charles Dickens's first e...

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