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All that the book really demonstrated was that a writer’s literary personality has tiny or practically nothing to do with his private character. It is pretty probable that in private life Dickens was just the type of insensitive egoist that Mr. Bechhofer Roberts makes him appear. But in his published operate there is implied a character very different from this, a personality which has won him far far more good friends than enemies. It could possibly well have been otherwise, for even if Dickens was a bourgeois, he was undoubtedly a subversive writer, a radical, one particular may possibly truthfully...