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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Dickens, Charles

She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.

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Dickens, Charles, his works in illegible print, 130, on Oxford India paper, 94, on thick paper, 95; on reading him, 143.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

Dickens, Charles, 1, 33, 34, 37, 121, 130, 131.

From A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle by Magdalene de Lancey

Dickens, Charles, entertained by Prescott, 91; preferred by him to Thackeray, 115.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

Dickens, Charles, his "Pickwick," 23; origin of his "Bill Stumps," 146; Pickwick suggested by Seymour, 280; described by Willis, 282.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

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