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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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

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, 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, 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 Lancey, Magdalene de

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