The Turning Point Quotes

“immediately noticed the “splendid library, of course, with soft carpet, couches etc, such as became a sympathiser with the suffering classes.” Her withering conclusion was “How can we sufficiently pity the needy unless we know fully the blessings of the plenty?” This autumn she”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

“edging his way closer to the writing of a novel in which he would remind his readers that telegrams and railways weren’t the only ways in which they were all connected.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

“unfamiliar lens; repeatedly, he takes the raw materials of life and reshapes them into teasing fragments of narrative. All that is missing is a plot where they can snap into place.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

“Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

“his style. “Brighten it, brighten it, brighten it!” he once instructed his subeditor W. H. Wills, after reading an article that was insufficiently “Dickensian”
― Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World