TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
TI  - Mudfog and Other Sketches
AV  - PR 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mudfog_Papers; Release date is 1997-05-01; Public life of Mr. Tulrumble, once mayor of Mudfog -- Full report of the first meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Full report of the second meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- The pantomime of life -- Some particulars concerning a lion -- Mr. Robert Bolton, the "gentleman connected with the press" -- Familiar epistle from a parent to a child aged two years and two months; Transcribed from the 1903 Chapman and Hall _Sketches by Boz_ edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Mudfog and Other Sketches" by Charles Dickens is a collection of stories published from 1837 to 1838 in Bentley's Miscellany. The anthology centers on the fictional Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a satirical parody of Victorian learned societies. Set in the provincial town of Mudfog—based on Dickens's childhood home of Chatham—these pieces blend humor and social commentary through accounts of pompous meetings, theatrical reflections, and character sketches that lampoon the pretensions of scientific and literary circles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/912
ER  -