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Posted by Mohammed Ahmed on Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 23:33

The Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England where John Keats likely wrote the poem When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be. He wrote this poem between January 22 and 31, 1818. He originally travelled here in order to write his longest poem, Endymion

 Early 19th century antique map of IOW for sale

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Keats/The-year-1819

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats

https://erling.yoga/john-keats-isle-of-wight/

https://www.christies.com/features/Joseph-Severn-portrait-of-Keats-11258-1.aspx

Posted by Selina Hakim on Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 23:21
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Posted by Mohammed Ahmed on Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 23:16

Moorgate is the street in London, England where John Keats was born on October 31, 1795. When he was a child, he moved in with his grandmother in Edmonton, and eventually moved to London to work as a junior house surgeon at Guy's and St. Thomas Hospitals. Near the end of his life, Keats went on a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland, and the Lake District with his best friend and fellow poet, Charles Armitage Brown. A few months before his death, he was accompanied by another friend, Joseph Severn, to Rome, Italy. On February 23, 1821, John Keats passed away in Rome.

 

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Keats/The-year-1819

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats

https://erling.yoga/john-keats-isle-of-wight/

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Posted by Selina Hakim on Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 22:41
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Posted by Selina Hakim on Saturday, December 3, 2022 - 21:42
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Posted by Selina Hakim on Friday, December 2, 2022 - 19:21

Bob Cratchit is the only employee of Scrooge who is treated very poorly and is very underpaid. He is also father to "Tiny Tim" who is very ill. The ghost of Christmas past is the first ghost to teach Scrooge a lesson, taking him to the Cratchit home, located in Camden Town. In this home, Scrooge develops empathy after witnessng Tiny Tim and after being toasted to before Christmas dinner, even after his cruelty that causes the suffering of this family. During Dickens' era, it is noted that Camden town was in great poverty and tainted with suffering.

Dickens, Charles. “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books Including 'A Christmas Carol'.” July 1998, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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Posted by Selina Hakim on Friday, December 2, 2022 - 17:34

Scrooge lives in a dark house on 45 Lime Street that is not too far from his place of work that is described as "haunted." In the novel, it is said that "he lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide- and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again. It was old enough now, and dreary enough; for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands." It is also stated that Scrooge liked it dark because it was "cheap" and "favourable" for him.

Dickens, Charles. “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books Including 'A Christmas Carol...

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Posted by Selina Hakim on Friday, December 2, 2022 - 16:27

Charles Dickens describes, in the opening of the novella, that Ebenezer Scrooge's counting house/warehouse is located on Cornhill Street in the city of London, England. A counting house is modernly known as an office used for work, keeping records of transactions, and storing finance books for business. This is where Scrooge works and spends most of his time. It was the business place of Scrooge and his old deceased partner, Jacob Marley (also known as the ghost that first appears to him in chains). In the novel, there are only three known employees: Scrooge, Marley, and employee Bob Cratchit. While the exact type of workplace isn't described specifically by Dickens, the audience knows that there are two rooms: "the Tank" where Cratchit sits and "the counting house" where Scrooge spends his time. The Walking Tours of London is a website that offers insight to every place described in Dickens' novel.

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Posted by Selina Hakim on Friday, December 2, 2022 - 15:55

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and is known for writing several Christmas-themed stories. Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" (with John Leech as the illutstrator) while taking long nighttime strolls on the streets of London, England in 1843. He wrote it in under 6 weeks while facing financial pressures. This book was first published on December 19th, 1843 in London by Chapman and Hall.

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Dickens-British-novelist (Dickens Biography)

Dickens, Charles. “Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books Including 'A Christmas Carol'.” July 1998, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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Posted by Jacob Yasso on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 21:32

This was where Victor Hugo lived during his exiled from France and where he wrote the story of Les Miserable.

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