<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:58:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@cdickens/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #15/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/schoolmasters/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-15-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/schoolmasters/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-15-456</guid><category><![CDATA[schoolmasters]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:59:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #14/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[He has dwelt thus long upon this point, because his object in calling public attention to the system would be very imperfectly fulfilled, if he did not state now in his own person, emphatically and earnestly,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-14-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-14-456</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #13/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[G., Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/ John F. Dexter, 1890).MacKay, Carol Hanbery, ‘The Melodramatic Impulse in Nicholas Nickleby’, Dickens Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 1988),]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-13-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-13-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:23:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #12/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[In addition, Dickens removed a number of intensifying adjectives (‘this heartless scheme’ (1839), ‘this scheme’ (1848, 1867); ‘insolence and the coarsest pride’ (1839), ‘insolence and pride’ (1848, 1867))]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-12-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-12-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:32:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #11/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mrs Watson’ in F. G. Kitton’s Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil(London: Frank T. Sabin/John F. Dexter, 1890), p. 145.11.For further discussion of Nicholas, see Beth F. Herst, The Dickens Hero(London:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-11-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-11-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:33:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #10/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[24The Nicklebys’ social and financial uncertainties are comically echoed in the pretensions to gentility that animate the Kenwigses and Fanny Squeers, and with surprising force in Dickens’s portrayal of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-10-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-10-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:24:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #9/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[He even has Nicholas do so in conversation with the ‘literary gentleman’, that is, the hack plagiarist who has dramatized ‘two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out – some of them]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nicholas/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-9-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nicholas/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-9-456</guid><category><![CDATA[nicholas]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:20:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #8/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rather, he is asked to collude in a childishly simple set of codes, which require, for instance, that the Indian Savage (Mr Folair) indicate his admiration for the Maiden (the Phenomenon), by stroking]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-8-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-8-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:31:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #7/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘She calls me cruel – me – me – who for her sake will become a demd damp, moist, unpleasant body!’ exclaimed Mr Mantalini.Like Mrs Nickleby’s recollections, such flights of fancy display a self-sustaining,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-7-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-7-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:35:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #6/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whereas the London of Dickens’s later novels tends to be given focus by a single institution – such as Chancery or the Marshalsea – whose narrative or symbolic significance connects all strata of society,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-6-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-6-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:32:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #5/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[She leaps into a discussion of Shakespeare at the opera by recalling a trip she made to Stratford in a post-chaise:‘Was it a post-chaise though!’ said Mrs Nickleby, considering; ‘yes, it must have been]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-5-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/shakespeare/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-5-456</guid><category><![CDATA[shakespeare]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #4/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[In addition, the book throws up an astonishing variety of minor characters whom Dickens hits off with insouciant brilliance: Mortimer Knag, Mrs Grudden, Mrs Blockson, Mr Snittle Timberry, the bailiffs]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-4-456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@cdickens/literature-charles-dickens-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-4-456</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdickens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:16:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #3/456]]></title><description><![CDATA[font-size: small; 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