Sunday Under Three Heads

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Sunday Under Three Heads is by Charles Dickens and carries a dedication to the Right Reverend the Bishop of London. The dedication tells the Bishop of London that he was among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions.

The text says there is a great deal of very unnecessary cant about the over-dressing of the common people. The text discusses the clauses of a bill that relate to travelling on Sunday, and says penalties of ten, twenty, and thirty pounds are mercilessly imposed upon coach proprietors who shall run their coaches on the Sabbath. The text voices a wish to see some large field, or open piece of ground, in every outskirt of London, exhibiting each Sunday evening on a larger scale the scene of the little country meadow.

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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.