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Until the 1950 s you could still see street vendors selling hot chestnuts in winter time in most large British cities. Alas, all gone now but in mid Victorian London a familiar and cheery sight on cold winter and autumn days.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world s most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular
