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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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, 154, 543; foible of, 180; relations to Wilkie Collins, 272.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

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 Parton, James

Dickens, Charles, 191, 206, 230, 232, 282, 347-349.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

Dickens, Charles, his influence on Bret Harte, 177, 284, 286, 339-342; his letter to Bret Harte, 312 n.;

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs