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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20020520
Author:Steve Pratt

Dickens (BBC2) Soap Stars Up A Mountain (C5) TALK about being catty - that William Makepeace Thackeray was a real bitch. Consider his observation of rival novelist Charles Dickens and his wife on a night out: "How splendid Mrs Dickens was in pink satin and how fetching Mr Dickens was with geranium and ringlets. I would never dream of calling him vulgar but, could one say?, he lacks elegance. His novels have the same qualities. They are, how should I put it, overdressed."

He was clearly no lover of Dickens' work. "He made a career out of dying children. At his command, everyone took out their ...

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