Justus D. Barnes Peggotty in "David Copperfield", the earliest known film adaption of the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens. He also played supporting roles in "Nicholas Nickleby" (1912), "Aurora Floyd" (1912), and "A Dog of Flanders" (1914). In 1917, he was released from the Thanhouser Company due to the company's financial issues. Barnes made his final onscreen appearance for the Edison Studio in "Cy Whittaker's Ward", in 1917. After retiring from acting, Barnes moved to Weedsport, New York where he worked as a milkman. He later owned a cigar store. Barnes died on February 6, 1946 in Weedsport at the age of 83.
History of modern literature 1844 Alexandre Dumas, père published a novel "The Three Musketeers" ("Les Trois Mousquetaires") and wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo" which was published in installments over the next two years. William Makepeace Thackeray published "The Luck of Barry Lyndon". In Britain Charles Dickens published several of his books in installments in magazines: "The Pickwick Papers", followed, in the next few years, by "Oliver Twist" (1837–1839), "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838–1839), "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1840–1841), "Barnaby Rudge" (1841), "A Christmas Carol" (1843) and "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1843–1844). In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a "dime novel". In