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She left it to Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Charles Dickens' sixth son, stipulating that it must not be published until after his death.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

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, entertained by Prescott, 91; preferred by him to Thackeray, 115.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

Dickens, Charles,   his manner suggested in "House of the Seven Gables".

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward