Charles Dickens lived and existed in the aftermath of the British Royal Tudor Dynasty and in Shakespearean England. The writings of Dickens in many ways are a direct response to the tragic daily life reality of Shakespearean England. Dickens’ writing is essentially a small group survival guide, using Christian virtues and morality, helping people to exist in life during perilous times.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24 KJV

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mitual Friend (1865) is the fourteenth and final completed novel by legendary English author Charles Dickens.

The Charles Dickens novel “Our Mutual Friend” derives from Dickens reading of Psalm 113:7-8. The verse states God “raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap” providing the famous Dust Heaps in his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. – Google AI Gemini

This last novel more openly and directly brings together many of Dickens’ previously slightly veiled agendas like society, family, poverty and of course glorious Victorian London. | Highly Recommend

by David Anson Brown

Why People should Read ‘Understand’ British Author Charles Dickens | Note: Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era | Dickens did not actually write fiction he very much wrote reality though often thinly disguised.

BBC Playback | Our Mutual Friend (1998) | This highly acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens’ last completed novel paints a powerful portrait of Victorian London