Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 4 | Dickens Depicted as Vian Vulgarian in Startling Book

Dickens Depicted as Vain in Startling Book Noted Author Called S Bully by Bri ish Journalist NEW YORK Sept 1 United Press Press-A highly unflattering view ot of Charles Dickens the man has been taken by C. C E E. Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts English journalist In a. a nov el This Side published hed a a. afew few days das ago Roberts Claims that Dickens was wason wason on paper only a a. foe of cant hypocrisy nay and humbug As a matter of fact he continues the Indomitable i Boz bullied his wife and his publIshers pub pub- ushers lIshers used his friends friends and family i mercilessly as material for tor books i lived on r e and was in short I Ia a vain selfish vulgar man i The customarily accepted theory 1 that Mrs Dickens was insane Is rejected rejected re- re by Roberts Roberts' who charges that that Dickens himself this theory the the- ory after Kate weakened by constant constant con con- stant childbearing angered by beIng being be- be Ing urged to economy while her husband lavished gifts on favorites and disgusted by his circle ot of worshipping worshipping wor- wor shipping women headed by her own sister left him Dickens lovers over the world may rebel at this Interpretation of an Idol but Roberts claims facts are Indisputably correct Much of hi J important but previously unknown un- un known material was secured through surviving friends of Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens and from the descendants of Boz's gOdfather