FYI ...

... Ivebeenreadinglately: Trollope on Dickens. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I never heard any man call Dickens a radical; but if any man was ever so, he was a radical at heart,--believing entirely in the people, writing for them, speaking for them, and always desirous to take their part against some undescribed and indiscernible tyrant, who to his mind loomed large as an official rather than as an autocratic despot.