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Charles Dickens

7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870

Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. (Source.)

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Subjects
Fiction, Accessible book, Social life and customs, Protected DAISY, History, English Christmas stories, In library, English Novelists, Internet Archive Wishlist, Orphans, OverDrive, Young men, Classic Literature, Correspondence, Ebenezer Scrooge (Fictitious character), Poor families, Description and travel, Christmas, Misers, Christmas stories, Biography, Fathers and daughters, Ghosts, Quotations, Sick children
Places
England, London (England), France, Great Britain, London, Paris (France), United States, Italy, Inglaterra, Yorkshire (England), Europe, Canada, London (England, Paris, 19th century, Anglesey, Angleterre, Black Country (English Midlands), Carlisle, Carrock Fell, Ireland, Manchester, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England), North Wales, Palestine
People
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), Jesus Christ, William Henry Kolle (d. 1881), Maria Sarah Beadnell Winter (1811 or 12-1886), Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts Burdett-Coutts Baroness (1814-1906), Charles James Lever (1806-1872), Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Tiny Tim, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Angela Burdett-Coutts, Bill Sudderth, Catherine Dickens (1815-1879), Catherine Thomson Hogarth Dickens (1815-1879), Charles Dickens (1837-1896), Charles Eskell Van Noorden, Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867), David Copperfield, Ebenezer Scrooge, Ebenzor Scrooge, Fanny Amanda Comstock (1854-), George Cruikshank (1792-1878), Hallie Erminie Rives (b. 1876)
Time
19th century, Revolution, 1789-1799, 18th century, 1789-1799, 1783-1865, Revolution,1789-1799, Siglo XIX, Revolution, Victoria, 1837-1901, Victorian era, 1760-1820, 1764-1867, 1780, 1783-1848, 1789-1820, 1801-1860, 1801-1900, 19e siècle, French Revolution, French Revolution, 1789-1799, London, added descripton

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Alternative names

  • Charles John Huffam Dickens
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  • Carlos Dickens
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
  • Flo Gibson (Narrator)
  • illustrated by Arthur Rackham Charles Dickens
  • Introduction-John Carey
  • DICKENS, CHARLES, 1812-1870
  • Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
  • Charles 1812-1870 Dickens
  • Dickens, Charles,$d1812-1870
  • harles Dickens
  • Dickens,Charles ディケンズ,チャールズ (1812-1870)
  • Mike; Spencer, John (editors) (Charles Dickens; Lord Halifax; Edgar Allan Poe; Bram Stoker; O. Henry; William Mudford; Frederick Marryat; Matthew Lewis; William Makepeace Thackeray; W. W. Jacobs; Saki) Jarvis

History Created April 1, 2008 · 23 revisions Download catalog record: RDF / JSON

March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 11, 2013 Edited by Linda Newbown Update photos
March 1, 2013 Edited by Amy L Hester reverted to revision 19
November 16, 2012 Edited by BETHANY J COOPER merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import