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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era . [ 1 ]
The Quincunx (The Inheritance of John Huffam) is the epic first novel of Charles Palliser. It takes the form of a Dickensian mystery set in early 19th century England, but Palliser has added the modern attributes of an ambiguous plot and unreliable narrators .
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, married Catherine Hogarth (1815–1879) Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896), editor and writer, married Elizabeth Matilda Moule Evans Mary Angela Dickens (1862–1948), journalist and novelist and writer of Children's Stories from Dickens [ 1 ]
Charles Dickens's father, John Dickens, at the time a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, asked the wealthy, well-connected Huffam to act as godfather to Charles. [4] This same Huffam family appeared later in Charles Palliser's 1989 The Quincunx, a homage to the Dickensian novel form. As with most of Dickens's work, a number of socially significant ...
The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
Cavalletto, John Baptist Small time Italian smuggler and Rigaud's fellow prisoner at the start of Little Dorrit. Later employed by Arthur Clennam in Bleeding Heart Yard after being injured in a mail coach accident, and helps in the search for Rigaud. Newman Noggs and Kate Nickleby - Charles Dickens
According to Paul Schlicke, these illustrations are mediocre yet were included in the Charles Dickens edition, and Stone created illustrations for Dickens's subsequent novel, Our Mutual Friend. [53] Later, Henry Mathew Brock also illustrated Great Expectations and a 1935 edition of A Christmas Carol , [ 66 ] along with other artists, such as ...
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