Sketches of Young Couples

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The book is titled Sketches of Young Couples, and its contents list names sketches headed, among others, The Young Couple, The Formal Couple and The Loving Couple. A piece headed An Urgent Remonstrance is addressed to the gentlemen of England, being bachelors or widowers. The text makes an urgent appeal to the gentlemen of England to take immediate steps for convening a Public meeting to consider the best and surest means of averting the dangers with which they are threatened by the recurrence of Bissextile, or Leap Year.

A sketch headed THE YOUNG COUPLE says there is to be a wedding this morning at the corner house in the terrace, and that Miss Emma Fielding is going to be married to young Mr. Harvey. The text shows a lady demanding, "Whose fault is that?" while the gentleman, becoming more sleepy, returns no answer. An old gentleman addresses a barber as Crofts, and the barber replies that his grandfather was ninety-four.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.