2. Charles Dickens

From	smilingamy
ID	GB-462178
Distance	1,849 km (1,149 miles)
Sent on	2 Sep, 2013
Travel time	19 days

Another postcard from Great Britain. I love such cards! It incites to learn more about the world around and its great people. Actually, we've learned Dickens in University, so I've been familiar to his works. Dickens was born in England in 1812. He died in 1870.

The most famous novels of Dickens are "Pickwick Papers", "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations", "A Tale of Two Cities".

His first big success was The Pickwick Papers. This was in 1837, the year Victoria became Britain's Queen.

Dickens lived through the Industrial Revolution. He wrote about how life was changing, especially for poor people. Dickens is one of the writers who got their fame inter vivos. He became so famous people knew him as he walked about London. He was a celebrity. 

1. Sweet Shop

As it came out, I've received this card from a very talented person.

Rebeccah is a writer by trade, with skills of varying degrees in knitting, baking, EFL teaching, performing, photography, dog-walking, postcrossing, sleeping, painting, and procrastinating. She always carries a red pen with her, in order to correct punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors that she finds on her travels. Learn more about her. 

From	BeckaMJ
ID	GB-455892
Distance	1,638 km (1,018 miles)
Sent on	12 Aug, 2013
Travel time	15 days

Penny Sweets. In the 60s, 70s and 80s it was common for sweets to be sold individually in shops, each sweet costing a penny or two, hence the name penny sweets.

There's an interesting story of its' creation. In 1899, Charlie Thompson, a sales representative, supposedly dropped a tray of samples he was showing a client in Leicester, mixing up the various sweets. He scrambled to re-arrange them, and the client was intrigued by the new creation. Quickly the company began to mass-produce the allsorts, and they became very popular.

Many sweet shops had a tray on the counter displaying all the different kinds of sweets - maybe up to 20 different kinds of sweets on view.Pocket money was often spent on a careful selection of penny sweets and many a shopkeeper was irritated by the length of time it took the youngsters to make their choices.

Liquorice allsorts consist of a variety of liquorice sold as a mixture. These confections are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings, and gelatine.