Dickens

• In celebration of Tuesdays 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a titan of English literature whose vivid stories confronted the injustices of Victorian life, Google featured a cartoon doodle comprised of some of his most beloved characters.
(msnbc.com)
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(The University of Texas at Austin)
• Today is the two-hundredth birthday of Charles Dickens. If you end up not reading to the end of this blog post, here's the most important thing I want you to take away from here: Charles Dickens was not paid by the word for his novels.
(Forbes)
• Theres a smell of brand-new commercialism over at Google. No more Mr. So Nice It Almost Seems Unreal Guy. Googles here to make money and to win. Your Google search results are now your Google+ search results.
(CNET News)
• 1. Little Nell of The Old Curiosity Shop The orphaned Nell Trent, a girl of not quite fourteen is the angelic heroine The Old Curiosity Shop.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.K.
(Businessweek)
• U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, marking the 200th anniversary of author Charles Dickens's birth today, was given an austerity-themed gift by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a copy of the novelist's classic "Hard Times.
(Bloomberg)
• We have quite a number of characters who showed up today to help celebrate Charles Dickens 200th birthday. Twelve recognizable ones at least.
(Google)
• In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind.
(Time)