Show tho the mother of dickens DI chens the childhood of dickens was so shadowed by poverty and his sensitive and imaginative mind was so keenly alive to liis his position that it is ia hardly possible that he could draw an absolutely impartial picture of his parents his mother had a keen appreciation of the eroll droll ani and ot of the pathetic and likewise lik edse considerable dramatic talent she was a comely little woman with handsome bright eyes and a genial agreeable person from her dickens undoubtedly inherited its his temperament pe and intellectual gifts she possessed an extraordinary sense of the ludicrous and her power ot of initiation imitation was something astonishing her perception was bulc quick k and she unconsciously noted everything that came under her observation in describing ridiculous occurrences her tone and anci gestures gest tires would tie be inimitable while her manner was of the quaintest quain test dickens declares that to her ho he owed his first desire for knowledge and that his earliest passion for reading was awakened by his mother who taught him not only the first rudiments of english but also it a little of latin poverty saddened and darkened many years of her life and her children were early compelled to leave her and earn their own living but they all honored and loved her as she deserved comans womans argosy |