Literature Fact

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote with a goose quill pen and blue ink on blue-gray slips of paper measuring 8 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches. He wrote a minimum of 2,000 words a day (some days he managed 4,000), publishing 17 novels in his lifetime. All of them are still in print.

 Mr. Dickens died today - June 9th in 1870.