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    The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day...
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  • The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost...
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    Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created...
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    "Mamie" Dickens (6 March 1838 – 23 July 1896) was the eldest daughter of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She wrote a book of reminiscences...
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    Thomson "Kate" Dickens (née Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, the mother of his ten children...
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    Georgina Hogarth (category Charles Dickens)
    adviser of English novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of three volumes of his collected letters after his death. 'Georgy' Hogarth was one of 10 children...
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    Haldimand Dickens (18 April 1847 – 2 May 1872) was a Royal Navy officer, the fifth son and seventh child of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife...
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    The Dickens family are the descendants of John Dickens, the father of the English novelist Charles Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy...
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    David Copperfield is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from...
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  • Annie Dickens (16 August 1850 – 14 April 1851) was the infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She was the ninth of their...
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    Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine...
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    The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in King's Cross, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian...
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    Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his...
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    John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of the famous English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's...
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    (/ˌɛbɪˈniːzər ˈskruːdʒ/) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 short novel, A Christmas Carol. Initially a cold-hearted miser...
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    Mary Hogarth (category Charles Dickens)
    sister of Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens at age 14, and after Dickens married...
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    Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 12 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was...
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    Charles Dickens's works are especially associated with London, which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop...
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    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was...
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    Urania Cottage (category Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    asylum, in the terminology of the time, hostel or women's shelter, founded in London in 1847 by the novelist Charles Dickens and the philanthropist Angela...
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    Newnham Dickens (10 November 1827 – 4 October 1866) was the youngest brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the inspiration for Charles's pen name...
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  • Jarndyce and Jarndyce (category Charles Dickens)
    fictional probate case in Bleak House (1852–53) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device in the...
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    topic of racism in the works of 19th-century English author Charles Dickens, with increased focus in the 20th and 21st centuries. While Dickens was known...
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    stood. Storey p. 118 Wiener pp. 138–39 Richards p. 136 Letters of Charles Dickens p. 371 "Murder of Maria Martin - Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders...
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    William Bradbury (printer) (category Charles Dickens)
    1830 in Bradbury and Evans, who printed the works of a number of major novelists such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as leading...
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    Lamert Dickens (March 1822 – 27 July 1860) was an English railway engineer and the younger brother of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. As a boy...
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    Mary Louisa Boyle (category Charles Dickens)
    literary circles of Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She was born on 12 November 1810 at Cavendish Square, London, one of six children of Captain Sir...
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  • Our Mutual Friend (category Novels by Charles Dickens)
    author Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic...
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    Great Expectations (category Novels by Charles Dickens)
    Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens'...
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    Punch and Judy (category Culture of England)
    of men and women can be so knocked about, without any pain or suffering. — Charles Dickens, Letter to Mary Tyler, 6 November 1849, from The Letters of...
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