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  Fiction

  American Notes

  Barnaby Rudge

  The Battle of Life

  Bleak House

  The Chimes

  A Christmas Carol

  The Cricket on the Hearth

  David Copperfield

  Dombey and Son

  Great Expectations

  Hard Times

  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

  Holiday Romance

  Hunted Down

  The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

  Little Dorrit

  The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

  Martin Chuzzlewit

  Master Humphrey's Clock

  A Message from the Sea

  Mudfog and Other Sketches

  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

  Nicholas Nickleby

  No Thoroughfare

  The Old Curiosity Shop

  Oliver Twist

  Our Mutual Friend

  The Pickwick Papers

  Reprinted Pieces

  Sketches by Boz

  A Tale of Two Cities

  The Uncommercial Traveller

  Short Stories

  Some Christmas Stories:

  A Christmas Tree

  The Child's Story

  Nobody's Story

  The Poor Relation's Story

  The Schoolboy's Story

  What Christmas is as we Grow Older

  Three Ghost Stories:

  The Haunted House

  The Signal-Man

  The Trial For Murder

  Doctor Marigold

  George Silverman's Explanation

  Going into Society

  The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn

  The Holly-Tree

  A House to Let

  The Lamplighter

  Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

  Mrs. Lirriper's Lodging

  Mugby Junction

  Perils of Certain English Prisoners

  The Seven Poor Travellers

  Sketches of Young Couples

  Sketches of Young Gentlemen

  Somebody's Luggage

  Sunday under Three Heads

  To Be Read at Dusk

  Tom Tiddler's Ground

  Wreck of the Golden Mary

  Non-Fiction

  A Child's History of England

  Miscellaneous Papers (11 essays)

  Pictures from Italy

  Speeches: Literary and Social

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  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Agricultural Interest

  American Notes for General Circulation

  Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of The Riots of 'Eighty'

  Bashful Young Gentleman

  Battle of Life

  Begging-Letter Writer

  Betrothal

  Bill-Sticking

  'Biths. Mrs. Meek, of a Son

  Bleak House

  Capital Punishment

  Censorious Young Gentleman

  Chauncey Hare Townshend

  Child's Dream of a Star

  Child's History of England

  Child's Story

  Chimes

  Christmas Carol

  Christmas Tree

  Contradictory Couple

  Cool Couple

  Couple Who Coddle Themselves

  Couple Who Dote Upon Their Children

  Cricket On The Hearth

  Crime And Education

  David Copperfield

  Detective Police

  Doctor Marigold

  Dombey and Son

  Domestic Young Gentleman

  Down With The Tide

  Egotistical Couple

  Familiar Epistle From A Parent To A Child Aged Two Years And Two Months

  First Branch--Myself

  Flight

  Formal Couple

  Full Report of The First Meeting of The Mudfog Association

  Full Report of The Second Meeting of The Mudfog Association

  Funny Young Gentleman

  George Silverman's Explanation

  Ghost of Art

  Going Into Society

  Great Expectations

  Hard Times

  Haunted House

  Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain

  Holiday Romance - In Four Parts

  Holly-Tree -- Three Branches

  House To Let

  Hunted Down

  In Memoriam--W. M. Thackeray

  Lamplighter

  Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

  Let At Last

  Life And Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

  Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

  Literature of America

  Little Dorrit

  Long Voyage

  Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

  Loving Couple

  Lying Awake

  Manchester Marriage

  Marriage

  Master Humphrey's Clock

  Message From The Sea

  Military Young Gentleman

  Miscellaneous Papers

  Monument of French Folly

  Mr. Robert Bolton: The 'Gentleman Connected With The Press'

  Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

  Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

  Mudfog And Other Sketches

  Mugby Junction

  Mystery of Edwin Drood

  Nice Little Couple

  No Thoroughfare

  Noble Savage

  Nobody's Story

  Old Couple

  Old Curiosity Shop

  Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

  On Duty With Inspector Field

  On Mr. Fechter's Acting

  Our Bore

  Our English Watering-Place

  Our French Watering-Place

  Our Honourable Friend

  Our Mutual Friend

  Our Parish

  Our School

  Our Vestry

  Out-and-out Young Gentleman

  Out of The Season

  Out of Town

  Over The Way

  Pantomime Of Life

  Perils of Certain English Prisoners

  Pickwick Papers

  Pictures From Italy

  Plated Article

  Plausible Couple

  Poetical Young Gentleman

  Political Young Gentleman

  Poor Man's Tale of a Patent

  Poor Relation's Story

  Prince Bull. A Fairy Tale

  Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble--Once Mayor Of Mudfog

  Reprinted Pieces

  Schoolboy's Story

  Seven Poor Travellers--In Three Chapters

  Signal-Man

  Sketches By Boz

  Sketches of Young Couples

  Sketches of Young Gentlemen

  Some Particulars Concerning A Lion

  Some Short Chris
tmas Stories

  Somebody's Luggage

  Speech: Boston, April 8, 1868

  Speech: Edinburgh, March, 26, 1858

  Speech: Liverpool, April 10, 1869

  Speech: London, February 14, 1866

  Speech: London, June 5, 1867

  Speech: London, May 1, 1853

  Speech: New York, February 18, 1842

  Speech: Administrative Reform. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

  Speech: Birmingham, February 28, 1844

  Speech: Birmingham, December 30, 1853

  Speech: Birmingham, January 6, 1853

  Speech: Birmingham, January 6, 1870

  Speech: Birmingham, September 27, 1869

  Speech: Commercial Travellers. London, December 30, 1854

  Speech: Coventry, December 4, 1858

  Speech: Edinburgh, June 25, 1841

  Speech: February 7, 1842

  Speech: February 1842

  Speech: Gardeners And Gardening. London, June 14, 1852

  Speech: Gardening. London, June 9, 1851

  Speech: Glasgow, December 28, 1847

  Speech: January, 1842

  Speech: Knebworth, July 29, 1865

  Speech: Leeds, December 1, 1847

  Speech: Liverpool, February 26, 1844

  Speech: London, April 14, 1851

  Speech: London, April 29, 1858

  Speech: London, April 30, 1853

  Speech: London, April 6, 1846. {20}

  Speech: London, February 9, 1858

  Speech: London, July 21, 1858

  Speech: London, March 28, 1866

  Speech: London, March 29, 1858

  Speech: London, March 29, 1862

  Speech: London, May 11, 1864

  Speech: London, May 1, 1858

  Speech: London, May 20, 1862

  Speech: London, May 7, 1866

  Speech: London, May 8, 1858

  Speech: London, May 9, 1865

  Speech: London, November 2, 1867

  Speech: London, November 5, 1857

  Speech: London, September 17, 1867

  Speech: Macready. London, March 1, 1851

  Speech: Manchester, December 3, 1858

  Speech: Manchester, October 5, 1843

  Speech: New York, April 18, 1863

  Speech: New York, April 20, 1868

  Speech: Newspaper Press Fund.--london, May 20, 1865

  Speech: Sanitary Reform. London, May 10, 1851

  Speech: Sheffield, December 22, 1855

  Speech: The Farewell Reading. St. James's Hall, March 15, 1870

  Speech: The Newsvendors' Institution, London, April 5, 1870

  Speech: The Oxford And Harvard Boat Race. Sydenham, August 30

  Speech: The Royal Academy Dinner. London, May 2, 1870

  Speech: The Royal Literary Fund. London, March 12, 1856

  Speeches: Literary And Social

  Spirit Of Chivalry In Westminster Hall

  Sunday Under Three Heads

  Tale of Two Cities

  Theatrical Young Gentleman

  Threatening Letter

  Three 'Detective' Anecdotes

  Three Evenings In The House

  Three Ghost Stories

  'Throwing-Off' Young Gentleman

  To Be Read At Dusk

  Tom Tiddler's Ground

  Trial For Murder

  Trottle's Report

  Uncommercial Traveller

  Very Friendly Young Gentleman

  Walk in a Workhouse

  What Christmas Is As We Grow Older

  Wreck of The Golden Mary

  Young Couple

  Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

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  Biography of Charles Dickens

  Life | Literary style | Legacy | Adaptations of readings | Museums and festivals | Notable works by Charles Dickens

  Charles John Huffam Dickens; (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.

  Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities, yet writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf fault his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrence and grotesque characters.

  The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that none has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public.

  Life

  Early years

  Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Portsmouth in Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens (1786-1851), a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow, 1789-1863) on February 7, 1812. When he was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. When he was ten, the family relocated to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town in London.

  Although his early years seem to have been an idyllic time, he thought himself then as a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy". He spent his time outdoors, reading voraciously with a particular fondness for the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. He talked later in life of his extremely poignant memories of childhood and his continuing photographic memory of people and events that helped bring his fiction to life. His family was moderately wealthy, and he received some education at the private William Giles's school in Chatham. However, this time of prosperity came to an abrupt end when his father, after spending too much money entertaining and retaining his social position, was imprisoned at Marshalsea debtors' prison.

  A 12-year-old Dickens began working 10 hour days in a Warren's boot-blacking factory, located near the present Charing Cross railway station. He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on the jars of thick polish. This money paid for his lodging in Camden Town and helped support his family.

  After a few months his family was able to leave Marshalsea but their financial situation did not improve until later, partly due to money inherited from his father's family. His mother did not immediately remove Charles from the boot-blacking factory, which was owned by a relation of hers. Dickens never forgave his mother for this, and resentment of his situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works. As Dickens wrote in David Copperfield, judged to be his most clearly autobiographical novel, "I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!" Eventually he attended the Wellington House Academy in North London.

  In May 1827, Dickens began work in the office of Ellis and Blackmore as a law clerk, a junior office position with potential to become a lawyer, a profession for which he later showed his dislike in his many literary works. He later became a court stenographer at the age of 17. In 1830, Dickens met his first love, Maria Beadnell, who has been said to be the model for Dora in David Copperfield. Her parents disapproved of their courtship and they effectively ended the relationship when they sent her to school in Paris.

  Journalism and early novels

  In 1834, Dickens became a journalist, reporting parliamentary debate and travelling Britain by stagecoach to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle. His journalism, in the form of sketches which appeared in periodicals from 1833, formed his first collection of pieces Sketches by Boz which were published in 1836 and led to the serialization of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in March 1836. He continued to contribute to and edit journals throughout much of his subsequent literary career.

  On 2 April 1836, he married Catherine Thompson Hogarth (1816-1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle. After a
brief honeymoon in Chalk, Kent, they set up home in Bloomsbury where they produced ten children:

  Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837-1896).

  Mary Angela Dickens (6 March 1838-1896).

  Kate Macready Dickens (29 October 1839-1929).

  Walter Landor Dickens (8 February 1841-1863). Died in India.

  Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844-1886).

  Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845-1912).

  Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (18 April 1847-1872).

  (Sir) Henry Fielding Dickens (15 January 1849-1933). Henry Charles Dickens (1882-1966), barrister. (Grandson) Monica Dickens (1915-1992). (Great-granddaughter)

  Dora Annie Dickens (16 August 1850-April 1851).

  Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (13 March 1852-23 January 1902). He migrated to Australia, and became a member of the New South Wales state parliament. He died in Moree, NSW.

  In the same year, he accepted the job of editor of Bentley's Miscellany, a position he would hold until 1839 when he fell out with the owner. However, his success as a novelist continued, producing Oliver Twist (1837-39), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), then The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge as part of the Master Humphrey's Clock series (1840-41), all being published in monthly instalments before being made into books.

  In 1842, he travelled with his wife to the United States and Canada, a journey which was successful despite his support for the abolition of slavery. The trip is described in the short travelogue American Notes for General Circulation and is also the basis of some of the episodes in Martin Chuzzlewit. Shortly thereafter, he began to show interest in Unitarian Christianity, although he remained an Anglican, at least nominally, for the rest of his life. Dickens's work continued to be popular, especially A Christmas Carol written in 1843, the first of his Christmas books, which was reputedly written in a matter of weeks.

  After living briefly abroad in Italy (1844) and Switzerland (1846), Dickens continued his success with Dombey and Son (1848); David Copperfield (1849-50); Bleak House (1852-53); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1857); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); and Great Expectations (1861). Dickens was also the publisher and editor of, and a major contributor to, the journals Household Words (1850-1859) and All the Year Round (1858-1870).

  Middle years

  In 1856, his popularity had allowed him to buy Gad's Hill Place. This large house in Higham, Kent, had a particular meaning to Dickens as he had walked past it as a child and had dreamed of living in it. The area was also the scene of some of the events of Shakespeare's Henry IV, part 1 and this literary connection pleased him.