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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Owing to a rupture between his employer and the elder Mr. Dickens, Charles was removed from this place and sent to school.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

Dickens, Charles, made his first appearance amongst us at a Polytechnic Conversazione held February 28, 1844, his last visit being to distribute prizes to students of the Midland Institute, January 6, 1870.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

Carlyle and Ruskin were its chief prophets; but we must not forget the novels of Dickens, Charles Reade and Kingsley.

From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph

Dickens, Charles: The most popular of English novelists.

From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by Baldwin, James