Dickens, Charles

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  1. February 7, 1812 in Landport
  2. June 9, 1970 in Rochester
  3. Schriftsteller

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Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868 (Source: Wikimedia)
Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth (Source: Wikimedia)
2 Ordnance Terrace, Chatham, Dickens's home 1817 – May 1821[13] (Source: Wikimedia)
Illustration by Fred Bernard of Dickens at work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father had been sent to the Marshalsea, published in the 1892 edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens[24] (Source: Wikimedia)
The Marshalsea around 1897, after it had closed. Dickens based several of his characters on the experience of seeing his father in the debtors' prison, most notably Amy Dorrit from Little Dorrit. (Source: Wikimedia)
Catherine Hogarth Dickens by Samuel Laurence (1838). She met the author in 1834, and they became engaged the following year before marrying in April 1836. (Source: Wikimedia)
Frontispiece, Sketches by Boz—Boz being a family nickname—written by Dickens with illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1837 (Source: Wikimedia)
The wise-cracking, warm-hearted servant Sam Weller from The Pickwick Papers—a publishing phenomenon that sparked numerous spin-offs and Pickwick merchandise—made the 24-year-old Dickens famous.[51] (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Charles Dickens by Daniel Maclise, 1839 (Source: Wikimedia)
Barnaby Rudge was Dickens's first popular failure but the character of Dolly Varden—pictured in an 1842 oil painting by William Powell Frith—"pretty, witty, sexy, became central to numerous theatrical adaptations".[65] (Source: Wikimedia)
Sketch of Dickens in 1842 during his first American tour. Sketch of Dickens's sister Fanny, bottom left (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens's portrait by Margaret Gillies, 1843. Painted during the period when he was writing A Christmas Carol, it was in the Royal Academy of Arts' 1844 summer exhibition. After viewing it there, Elizabeth Barrett Browning said that it showed Dickens with "the dust and mud of humanity about him, notwithstanding those eagle eyes".[85] (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens presiding over a charity meeting to discuss the future of the College of God's Gift; from The Illustrated London News, March 1856 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Dickens, c. 1850, National Library of Wales (Source: Wikimedia)
David reaches Canterbury, from David Copperfield. The character incorporates many elements of Dickens's own life. Artwork by Frank Reynolds. (Source: Wikimedia)
Illustration by Phiz of Chesney Wold, the Lincolnshire estate in Bleak House (Source: Wikimedia)
Commemorative blue plaque in Tavistock Square, London where Dickens lived between 1851 and 1860 (Source: Wikimedia)
Actress Ellen Ternan (pictured in 1858) drew the attention of Dickens after he saw her on stage in 1857. (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens at his desk, 1858 (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens was a regular patron at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub in Fleet Street, London. He included the venue in A Tale of Two Cities. (Source: Wikimedia)
Crowd of spectators buying tickets for a Dickens reading at Steinway Hall, New York City, in 1867 (Source: Wikimedia)
Poster promoting a reading by Dickens in Nottingham dated 4 February 1869, two months before he had a mild stroke (Source: Wikimedia)
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. His dialect is rooted in Cockney English. (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens's Dream by Robert William Buss, portraying Dickens at his desk at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of his characters (Source: Wikimedia)
Illustration of London Bridge (from the 1914 book In Dickens's London) which Nancy crossed in Oliver Twist (Source: Wikimedia)
An original illustration by Phiz from the novel David Copperfield, which is widely regarded as Dickens's most autobiographical work (Source: Wikimedia)
Advertisement for Great Expectations, serialised in the weekly literary magazine All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. The advert contains the plot device "to be continued". (Source: Wikimedia)
Nurse Sarah Gamp (left) from Martin Chuzzlewit became a stereotype of untrained and incompetent nurses of the early Victorian era, before the reforms of Florence Nightingale. (Source: Wikimedia)
Less fortunate characters, such as Tiny Tim (held aloft by Bob Cratchit), are often used by Dickens in sentimental ways. (Source: Wikimedia)
Dickens's portrait (top left), in between Shakespeare and Tennyson, on a stained glass window at the Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Canada (Source: Wikimedia)

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