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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we…

— Dermot Healy

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites…

— Maya Angelou

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A…

— George Brandis

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from…

— Burn Gorman

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs.…

— Miriam Margolyes

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

— Paul Rhys

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

— Leslie Jordan