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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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

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

Dickens, Charles, I, 71, 81, 83, 84, 87, 286.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe