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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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 “Nicholas Nickleby” as an exposition, 5; description from his “David Copperfield” quoted, 65;quotations from Mr. Micawber’s conversation, 253.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

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

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

Dickens, Charles, 58; letter on Marie Wilton, 102.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

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