Dickens, Charles
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![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)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dickens-at-the-Blacking-Warehouse.jpg "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)")
.png "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)")
![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)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sam-weller-kyd.jpeg "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)")
![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)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dolly_Varden_by_William_Powell_Frith.jpg "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)")
![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)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Charles_John_Huffman_Dickens.png "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)")
.jpg "Portrait of Dickens, c. 1850, National Library of Wales (Source: Wikimedia)")
,_Bleak_House_(1852-3)_plate.png "Illustration by Phiz of Chesney Wold, the Lincolnshire estate in Bleak House (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "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)")
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