////Dickens was forced to travel there because the Thieving Yank Bastards would not acknowledge English copyright, screwing him out of considerable cash - so the only way to get any benefit of his fame was to travel there in person. If they had paid him, he never would have taken the long uncomfortable and potentially dangerous journey. ////

Aside from the fact that I don't believe a word you have to say about anything because you do no checking of facts and offer no evidence to back you and have been caught cutting and pasting from the Catholic Encyclopedia without crediting it by another poster, your assertion doesn't even have a thing to with anything.