I have read most of Dickens' works and he probably rates as my second favorite author of all time. Here's me thinking I know almost everything there is to know about him until just the other day when my dad tells me that he was a probably a pedophile. Has anybody else heard this and do you know of any articles where this has been discussed. I've never got that impression and I've read every novel the man wrote. Now one book I definitely thought was written by a ped was Mann's Death in Venace...that guy was straight up all over little boys...pretty explicit actually.
Well, my English class has just started reading 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Dickens. His use of words are amazing, yet he doesn't need to impress me with this sort of skill by describing the most minor of details in a 3 paragraphs. I suppose you have to milk it for all it's worth when you're getting paid for the word, though. Anyways, to get back on topic, before we started reading one of his works we saw an biography video on him. I think they would've mentioned if he had pedophile tendecies (just like if you've seen one particcular biography video of Shakespeare some of the English Majors being interviewed reveal that they think him to be gay or at least bi) or something similar. The only wya he'd come across as a pedophile to me was when he fell in love with his wife's sister AFTER she died. She was 17 when she died, if I remember correctly. He probably would've been late 20s/early 30s, I think. Other than that you have to think about what the definition of a pedophile was back then. It wasn't unusual for older men (30s, I'd say) to marry young ladies who barely 16 (which, by today's standards is pedophile-ish), just like it wasn't unusual to marry your cousin. Other than that in what way do you mean that he was a pedophile? The way he talks about girls oir boys in his books? Real life? Or...?
