![]() ![]() ![]() Dickens was incensed upon hearing about the lives of these children: scant food, cold and filthy lodgings, physical beatings-and no real education. These were institutions located in a rural area outside of London where boys, poor, illegitimate, or otherwise unwanted by their families, were sent to live. Dickens had read in the newspapers about the infamous Yorkshire schools. ![]() The novel was born, however, from Dickens’s journalistic instinct. The two novels that followed,The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, are characterized by critics as having the quality of stories stitched together, as literary rather than journalistic ‘‘sketches.’’ Nicholas Nickleby would change that pattern. (He was only twenty-six when Nicholas Nickleby was published in 1838.) A collection of his journalistic pieces from London newspapers, Sketches by Boz, had been published to enormous acclaim two years earlier. This latter point is important because Nicholas Nickleby marked an important turning point for Dickens, the definitive fork in the road at which he became a writer of fiction rather than journalism, and thereby changed the face of literature forever.ĭickens had been a successful journalist in his so far rather short writing career. Nicholas Nickleby was Charles Dickens’s third novel, after The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, and it is considered his first classic romantic novel. ![]()
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