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This reads as a plea for generosity in judgment, asking that a woman be seen for what she is rather than measured against what she is not. It points to the unfair habit of grading people against an ideal. In a relationship, it lands as a reminder to notice actual character, not imagined shortcomings.
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About Charles Dickens
English writer and journalist, Victorian era
Charles Dickens was an English writer and journalist of the Victorian era. He is best known for creating some of literature’s most familiar fictional characters, and he remains closely associated with the novel form he helped define. His books and short stories were hugely popular in his lifetime, and later critics and scholars came to regard him as a literary genius. His work is still widely read, with many readers drawn to the vivid characters and social detail that made his fiction endure.
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Books by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
1986
Oliver Twist
1800
A Tale of Two Cities
1996
Great Expectations
1950
Hard Times
1891