Why Dickens Matters, Part 1

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Welcome to celebrate Poe  episode 417 - Why Dickens Still Matters, Part One

This first quote is from a George Gissing in 1898 - he famously said -

I suppose that for at least five and 20 years of his life, there was not an English speaking household in the world where his name was not as familiar as that of any personal acquaintance, and where an illusion to characters of his creating could fail to be understood.

And that creative person was none other than Charles Dickens. So I felt that a a brief look into Charles Dickens might be a good place to start in an examination of major 19th century writers.

Therefore I gave the following prompt to Gemini:

I am doing a podcast about using AI, as well as writers from the 19th century - such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. But one author that I have failed to include is Charles Dickens. Could you write me an introduction of why Charles Dickens is important, especially to the concept of creativity.

Why Charles Dickens Still Matters (Especially for Creativity)

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