{"id":805,"date":"2011-10-30T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2015-12-27T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:43:04","slug":"charles-dickens-and-captain-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/charles-dickens-and-captain-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens and Captain Murderer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-216\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Charles Dickens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dickens-face.gif\" alt=\"Charles Dickens\" width=\"180\" height=\"150\" \/> Are you ready for a gruesome Halloween tale featuring Charles Dickens?\u00a0 Then head on over to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania&#8217;s site to learn about <a title=\"Dickens and Captain Murderer\" href=\"http:\/\/frontierhistory.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/charles-dickens-supernatural-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Dickens, the Supernatural and Captain Murderer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While our partner site, Charles Dickens Info,\u00a0touches on <a title=\"Charles Dickens and Captain Murder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesdickensinfo.com\/life\/childhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Murder<\/a> the article from HSP provides more chilling details of the vile villain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember &#8211; as a sort of introductory overture &#8211; by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Uncommercial%20Traveller%20-%20Nurse%27s%20Stories\"> The Uncommercial Traveller &#8211; Nurse&#8217;s Stories<\/a><\/em> by <a>Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about <em>The Uncommercial Traveler<\/em>, here&#8217;s the scoop. \u00a0In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called <em>All the Year Round. <\/em>\u00a0The <em>Uncommercial Traveller<\/em> articles by Dickens appeared in that journal. \u00a0Seventeen\u00a0<em>Uncommercial Traveller<\/em> articles were\u00a0printed in <em>All the Year Round<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a01860. \u00a0Dickens\u00a0wrote eleven more articles between 1863 and 1865. \u00a0A few more were written between 1868 and 1869.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round.  The Uncommercial Traveller articles by Dickens appeared in that journal.  Seventeen Uncommercial Traveller articles were printed in All the Year Round in 1860. <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[830,825,358],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","tag-1title","tag-charles-dickens","tag-the-uncommercial-traveller-nurses-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}