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Sketches by Boz

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Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836. [1]

32 relations: Augustus Dickens, Bell's Life in London, Bentley's Miscellany, Bloomsbury, Bus, Charles Dickens, Doctors' Commons, Duel, Evening Chronicle, George Cruikshank, Greenwich, Hablot Knight Browne, Hackney carriage, Hatmaking, Internet Archive, John Leech (caricaturist), Monmouth Street, London, Monthly Magazine, Newgate, Oliver Goldsmith, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Pawnbroker, Ramsgate, River Thames, Scotland Yard, Seven Dials, London, Sketch story, St James's Square, The Morning Chronicle, The Pickwick Papers, The Vicar of Wakefield, Vauxhall Gardens.

Augustus Dickens

Augustus Newnham Dickens (10 November 1827 – 4 October 1866) was the youngest brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the inspiration for Charles's pen name 'Boz'.

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Bell's Life in London

Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886.

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Bentley's Miscellany

Bentley's Miscellany was an English literary magazine started by Richard Bentley.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Doctors' Commons

Doctors' Commons, also called the College of Civilians, was a society of lawyers practising civil law in London.

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Duel

A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules.

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Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle is a daily, evening newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering Tyne and Wear, southern Northumberland and northern County Durham.

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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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Hablot Knight Browne

Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator.

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Hackney carriage

A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or automobile for hire.

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Hatmaking

Hatmaking or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and head-wear.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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John Leech (caricaturist)

John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864 in London) was an English caricaturist and illustrator.

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Monmouth Street, London

Monmouth Street is a street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London, England.

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Monthly Magazine

The Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) of London began publication in February 1796.

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Newgate

Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Pawnbroker

A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

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Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

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Seven Dials, London

Seven Dials is a small road junction in Covent Garden in the West End of London where seven streets converge.

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Sketch story

A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot.

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St James's Square

St James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster.

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The Morning Chronicle

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.

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The Vicar of Wakefield

The Vicar of Wakefield – subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself – is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774).

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Vauxhall Gardens

Vauxhall Gardens was a pleasure garden in Kennington on the south bank of the River Thames and accessed by boat from London until the erection of Vauxhall Bridge in the 1810s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_by_Boz

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