{"id":2473,"date":"2026-06-20T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidansonbrown.site\/wordpress\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:56:14","slug":"charles-dickens-author-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidansonbrown.site\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/20\/charles-dickens-author-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens &#8211; Author of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217; writing is essentially a small group survival guide, using Christian virtues and morality, helping people to exist in life during perilous times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. &#8211; Proverbs 18:24 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our Mutual Friend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Mitual Friend (1865) is the fourteenth and final completed novel by legendary English author Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Charles Dickens novel &#8220;Our Mutual Friend&#8221; derives from Dickens reading of Psalm 113:7-8. The verse states God &#8220;raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap&#8221; providing the famous Dust Heaps in his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. &#8211; Google AI Gemini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This last novel more openly and directly brings together many of Dickens&#8217; previously slightly veiled agendas like society, family, poverty and of course glorious Victorian London. | Highly Recommend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by David Anson Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why People should Read &#8216;Understand&#8217; British Author Charles Dickens | Note: Charles Dickens (1812\u20131870) was the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era | Dickens did not actually write fiction he very much wrote reality though often thinly disguised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5czA_L_eOp4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC Playback | Our Mutual Friend (1998) | This highly acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens&#8217; last completed novel paints a powerful portrait of Victorian London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victorian Drama But Make It Toxic \ud83d\udc85 | Our Mutual Friend (1998) EP 1 | BBC Playback\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CVJNw3JcbWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Plot Thickens Like Victorian Fog | Our Mutual Friend (1998) EP 2 | BBC Playback\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/15eoVrESbKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victorian London But It\u2019s Giving Soap Opera | Our Mutual Friend (1998) EP 4 | BBC Playback\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcNlXxNaBkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When the Thames Has More Bodies Than Vibes \ud83d\ude2c | Our Mutual Friend (1998) EP 5 | BBC Playback\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5k_Jr69A4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dickens Really Said \u2018Trust Issues\u2019 | Our Mutual Friend (1998) EP 6 | BBC Playback\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQJ2WE-uAJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens lived and existed in the aftermath of the British Royal Tudor Dynasty and in Shakespearean England. 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