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Great Expectations Critical Overview
Charles Dickens
was often faulted by his early critics for writing with more melodrama or
realism than suited his readers' tastes. In 1861, E.S. Dallas suggested that
this was part of Dickens' charm: "Faults there are in abundance, but
who is going to find fault when the very essence of the fun is to commit faults?"
Yet Lady Carlisle once delicately commented, "I know there are such unfortunate
beings as pickpockets and streetwalkers... but I own I do not much wish to
hear what they say to one another." Likewise, in 1862 Mrs. Margaret Oliphant
found the novel "feeble, fatigued, and colorless." yet defended
Miss Havisham as "a very harmless and rather amiable old...
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