I occasionally watch vids from a channel called “It’s History”, and the topics are usually pretty interesting. The history of old buildings and architectural artifacts and such. But when Ryan, the host, was describing a giant Philadelphia hell hole prison and related how it was visited by Charles Dickenson I was completely removed from the narrative. Wondering about snarky comments, I looked and there were none. It’s no big deal, just kind of funny, at least to me.
Okay, somebody had to Google “Charles Dickenson author” so I did it, thinking there might be an obscure author with that name I could link to. However, Google promptly disambiguates to Charles Dickens, so maybe not.
But it’s a common mistake, if all the sites that came up are to be believed. Someone on Etsy is selling 2 books by Charles Dickenson, amazingly enough with the same names the other Charles D titled a couple of his books.
I’m looking forward to the episodes about Chaz Dickson, and Chuckie Dix.
Not Edmund Wells?
When I search, I get an author named Charles Dickenson who has published several novels and a collection of short stories:
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1393G0&p=Charles+Dickenson+author
The dickens you say!
Public Enemy frontman has Great Expectations?
For those interested, the video can be found here:
The relevant section starts at 17m 45s, with the author mentioned at 18m 05s
The author was Charles Dickens. No ‘son’.
The work was American Notes for General Circulation, Chapter 7
The quote is somewhat paraphrased.
" I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. "
Are you sure it’s not Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author?