Newly published Charles Dickens letters reveal he was ‘a bit of a diva’

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I read this from archive.org and it seems the article doesn't actually say anything about him being a bit of a diva. Just that the letters are going up for auction for the first time. Maybe they're missing some paragraphs.

From the article:

> One letter — dated Feb. 10, 1866, and written to an I.H. Newman — reveals Dickens, a celebrity in his own time, having a mild diva moment as he complains about the potential loss of Sunday postal service in his southern English town and threatens to move elsewhere.

It looks like more like strong clickbait than a real proof of mild diva behavior.

Thanks. That part was missing, and does fill in the blank.

Exclaiming you're going to move out of the city/state/country because of some potential upcoming minor change to your status quo is typical fatalism that could easily have been a sporadic tweet.

Easy to abuse someone who's dead.

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