Witchflower Days: Great Expectations, a 300-pound Man, Slavery, & Allen Stewart Konigsberg

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Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Great Expectations, a 300-pound Man, Slavery, & Allen Stewart Konigsberg

What happened on this day. On this day in 1860, the first installment of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations was published. Dickens, who had recently purchased a giant mansion (Gad's Hill Place), that he first admired when he was five years old. His father had pointed it out to him on a walk and... Sign in to see full entry.

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