The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-17
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HOW DICKENS wEorn HOOKS

HOW DICKENS WROTE HOOKS
The D*.hcuity lie Experienced /" FIND
ing Titles.
Till Dickens had fiX"f upon lis titln ha
could not ct seriously a, VIZ. lie was
in Genoa in 1874, and had u Chr:otina'
story 10 write He had never. he sid.
~ staggered upon the threshold before.
The subject vas there. bet he had not
found title for it nor the machinery
to work it with. Sitting down one
morning reso!ute to wo,k though
against the Grain. his hand being out
and everything being inviting TO idle
ness, such Il peal of chimes arose from
the city iL' he found maddening.
All Genoa lay beneath him, AMI up
from il, with some sudden set of the
wind, came in one fell sound the clang
and clash Of all its steeples, pouring into
his ears again and again, in a tunelesS.
grating discordant, Earring, hideous
vibration, that made his ideas span round
and round till they lost themselves in
the whiri of vexation and giddsneSs and
dropped down dead. A cdupke q days
later he wrote to Forster letter in one
sentence: We have heard the chimes
at midnight, Master Shallow. few
days later lie writes again: 1t Is great
thing to have my title and see my way
low to work the bells Let them clash
upon me now from all the churches and
converts of Genoa. | see nothing but
the ord London belfry have set them
in. Ia my minds eye Horatio- Thus
it Wa, always with Dickens when set
ting about new novel Dependency,
doubts. difficulties, and endless expert
menting, suggesting, sitting. rejecting
of tit eB Then, of sudden, title
found an he was off on til decomposition
of the book
Never We're the preliminary throes
more protractei than with David Cop
periicid Toward the end Of 1913 he
was making holiday at Broadstairs, his
mind running Oh a subject Il have
not. he writes from here.
seen Fancy write
With pencil Of light
On the blottcr so sold COMMANDING the sea:
hut shouldn't wonder if she were to DE-
it one of thee DAYS. Dim visions OF
divers things are floating around me.
must go to work hc; foremost when
get home" Home ne goes, yet gets nc
further.
In February 1s49, he Is in Brighton
"A sea fog to-day, but yesterday mex
pressibly delicious. Ny mind running
like high sea Oh names-not satisfied
vet. though. February % he found ii
| ties OF some sort to wit: Mays Diver
! sioas, icing the z, rsoaal History of Mr.
j rhoma' Mag the Younger of Blunder
! stone House.
Then came serie, of variations in th'
, exposit,ry part of the title. Blunder
| stone Iou5e becoming Copperfield house
| Then came The Personal History of Da
vid Copperfieid the Younger and Hi
Aunt Margaret February 20 he sen
| Forster u list of six names, which may b
found set out at length-at great length
in the Life.
Forster and Dickens's children finali.
determined his choice among the six
and the title once settled all is plain sail
ing. He went through this elaborat
process with most of hi, titles. Their
were dozen tentative titles for -Blea|
House, most of them leading Oft wit
Tom IL Alones. and IA for @Har'
Times 1t was The same with A TAI
of Two Cities "-lMacmillan's Magazine