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The Ottawa Public Library is the library system of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The library was founded in 1906 with a donation from the Carnegie Foundation.
Main branch of Ottawa Public Library in Downtown Ottawa
The original Ottawa Public library building, designed by Edgar Lewis Horwood (1903-5)
Main branch interior
Stained glass at Ottawa Public Library features Charles Dickens, Archibald Lampman, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare and Thomas Moore
Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
Ottawa Public Library
…original Ottawa Public library building, designed by Edgar Lewis Horwood (1903-5) Main branch interior Stained glass at Ottawa Public Library features Charles Dickens, Archibald Lampman, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare and Thomas Moore Prior to the twentieth century, Ottawa…
Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868
Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2 Ordnance Terrace (house on the left), Chatham, Kent, Dickens's home from 1817 to 1821
An illustration by Fred Bernard of Dickens at work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father had been sent to the Marshalsea, published in the 1892 edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens