Remember way back when… 🙃😂 | Jenelle Evans

In 1842, during his American tour, Charles Dickens met a young Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia. Poe was fascinated to learn that the clever raven character in Dickens's serial *Barnaby Rudge* was based on his real, mischievous pet. Grip was notorious in the Dickens household for biting the children's ankles and even dominating the family's mastiff dog. After Grip's death, Dickens had the bird preserved. This connection is more than trivia; it reveals a powerful literary contrast. Where Dickens,