Diogenes the main character in its sequel, "Kushiel's Justice". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Villette" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern". In Christopher Moore's "", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book "Possum Living". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'
Racism in the work of Charles Dickens English society, and he suggests that Britain should put its own house in order before looking overseas. Professor Sian Griffiths has noted that Dickens' essay exhibits many of the same uncivil qualities he attributes to savages and writes: Dickens in collaboration with Wilkie Collins, wrote "The Frozen Deep", which premiered in 1856, an allegorical play about the missing Arctic Franklin expedition, and which attacked the character of the Inuit as covetous and cruel. The purpose of the play was to discredit explorer John Rae's report on the fate of the expedition, which concluded that the crew had turned to cannibalism,