Dickens, Charles

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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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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, his influence on Bret Harte, 177, 284, 286, 339-342; his letter to Bret Harte, 312 n.;

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

Dickens, Charles, one of the greatest English novelists, born 7th Feb., 1812, at Landport, Portsmouth, died 9th June, 1870.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

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