dickens

Dickens is compared with the Mona Lisa in the text to stress his importance in literature.

In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain.

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved.

It's partly true that Dickens' style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.

No one will ever know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.

The publication of great expectations, which was both widely reviewed and highly praised, strengthened Dickens, status as a leading novelist.

When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters, he'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.

With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead.

The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens’s fame.

The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the ten-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast.

Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist.

Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose.

After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world.

A moralist, satirist, and social reformer Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

After pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world.

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter's eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England's southern coast.

his paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

Soon after his father's release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

Soon after Sketches by Bozappeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

The popularity of these novels consolidated Dickens as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

with characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour's pictures illustrate his own story instead.