Veneerings

James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion.

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

They abhorred what they saw as the crass materialism of their day—best summed up by the pushy, nouveau riche Veneerings in Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" 1865: "Brand new people in a brand new house in a brand new quarter of London," wrote Dickens.

A Penchant for Dreaming Henrik Bering 2012

Like their furniture, so the Veneerings: "The surface smelt a little too much of the workshop, and was a trifle sticky."

A Penchant for Dreaming Henrik Bering 2012

Our Mutual Friend when I was eighteen and to this day I can remember the Veneerings, the Boffins, Bradley Headstone, Lizzie Hexam and Eugene Wrayburn as if I had read it last week.

44 entries from December 2007 2007

Our Mutual Friend when I was eighteen and to this day I can remember the Veneerings, the Boffins, Bradley Headstone, Lizzie Hexam and Eugene Wrayburn as if I had read it last week.

A Dickens of a read. 2007

Our Mutual Friend when I was eighteen and to this day I can remember the Veneerings, the Boffins, Bradley Headstone, Lizzie Hexam and Eugene Wrayburn as if I had read it last week.

A Dickens of a read. 2007

And what was observable in the furniture, was observable in the Veneerings — the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

It is always noticeable at the table of the Veneerings, that no man troubles himself much about the Veneerings themselves, and that any one who has anything to tell, generally tells it to anybody else in preference.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Committee (nobody dreaming of asking the Veneerings for their opinion), when, looking round the table through her eyeglass, she perceives Mr

Our Mutual Friend 2004