Dickens, Charles

Cultural  

1. A nineteenth-century English author. His works include A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and numerous other novels. He created many memorable characters, including Bob Cratchit, Fagin, Jacob Marley, Samuel Pickwick, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Tiny Tim. Dickens, a man of keen social conscience, used his books to portray the suffering of the working class at the time of the Industrial Revolution.

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Example Sentences

She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dickens, Charles, one of the greatest and most popular of the novelists of England, was born in 1812.

From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers

Dickens, Charles, 28, 92, 117, 141, 142, 191, 192, 193.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

Dickens, Charles, 69, 82-90; his life, 82-85; and George Colman, 83; his public readings, 85; his characters, 86-88; his humour and pathos, 88-89; 262.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

Dickens, Charles,   at Newcastle;   author's leader on death of.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)