Journalist Eliza Lynn Linton publishes her article, One of Our Legal Fictions, on the inequities of the divorce laws, in Dickens' weekly magazine, Household Words, while Dickens was introducing Stephen Blackpool's wife, whom he is unable to divorce, in the novel ( Household Words, 1854, 257). 369).Ĭharles Dickens' life during the serialization of Hard Times Your browser does not support JavaScript!ĭuring the conception of Hard Times Charles Dickens visited the industrial town of Preston where a prolonged strike was in progress (January 1854) ( Slater, 2009, p. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness ( Hard Times, p.
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
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