Support for Charles Dickens’ Statement On Our Polls

“Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing.” – George Orwell

“That Dickens was a great genius and is permanently among the classics is certain.” – F.R. Leavis.

“Whatever the word ‘great’ means, Dickens was what it means.” – G.K. Chesterton

“I delight and wonder at his genius.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

“A different kind of royalty.” – Edward Bulwer

“The greatest dramatic writer that the English language had had since Shakespeare.” – Edmund Wilson

“Charles Dickens was the greatest novel writer of the 19th century.” – Leo Tolstoy