Re: Ideas for your stories
N6EYD (N6eyd@cris.com)
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:49:05 -0400
dear mr dickens
why did john forester have you change the ending on grait exspectasions?
i would like to no.
thank you for thothoghs grat stories.
faitfuly yours charles.
and prudence.
full of the dickens and always smiling
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Charles Dickens wrote:
> My dear Mr Jones,
>
> The roots of imagination are buried deep, and not all of them are
> accessible, even to the author himself. Miss Havisham grew in part, I think
> I can say, out of my preoccupation, around 1860, with the effects of
> brooding upon ancient wrongs, something I had experienced myself, dwelling
> upon painful episodes in my childhood. But there was an eternal stimulus
> too. Readers of "Household Words," the weekly journal I edited in the
> 1850s, during the first part of that decade also received a monthly
> supplement entitled "The Household Narrative of Current Event." Study that
> and you will find an account of a poor mad creature who wandered the West
> End of London at that time, dressed all in white, and believed to have been
> a wronged bride. It was impossible for her not to enter my mind, when I was
> conceiving Miss Havisham.
> Estella, as I recall, grew out of no such direct stimulus. I knew what it
> was to long for a young woman. What man doesn't? And my longing,
> doubtless, informed the effect she has on Pip. But I cannot recall, in my
> own experience, a young woman as cool and self-contained as Estella. I
> imagined her because she was what my story needed.
>
> Faithfully yours,
>
>
> Charles Dickens
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> >Dear Mr Dickens
> > I am from a school in Colchester, England. For GCSE we are studying Great
> >Expectations for our novel and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I would like to
> >ask you a question,
> >Where did you get your inspiration for the characters, Miss Havisham and Miss
> >Estella.
> >
> >Yours Sincerely
> >Chris Jones
> >
> >
>
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> Charles Dickens
> charles_dickens@rmplc.co.uk
> Author
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