Charles Dickens's 'sliding doors' moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer
An exhibition explores the authors' love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest "what if?" questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous Covent Garden theatre actor-manager George Bartley seeking an audition, saying he believed he "had a strong perception of charact…
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