Category: Biographies
Charles Dickens, the eldest son, and the second of the eight children, of John and Elizabeth Dickens, was born at Landport, a suburb of Portsea, on Friday, February 7, 1812. His baptismal names were Charles John Huffham. His father, at that time a clerk in the Navy Pay Office,...
The last twelve years of Dickens's life were busy years, like the others; but his activity was no longer merely the expression of exuberant force, and long before the collapse c...
7. CHAPTER VII.There is no reason whatever to believe that in the few years which have gone by since Dickens's death the delight taken in his works throughout England and North America, as wel...
5. CHAPTER V.I have spoken of both the intellectual and the physical vigour of Charles Dickens as at their height in the years of which the most enduring fruit was the most delightful of all...
3. CHAPTER III.A journey across the Atlantic in midwinter is no child's-play even at the present day, when, bad though their passage may have been, few people would venture to confess doubts,...
2. CHAPTER II.Even in those years of which the record is brightest in the story of his life, Charles Dickens, like the rest of the world, had his share of troubles--troubles great and small,...
4. CHAPTER IV.The five years, reckoned roughly, from the beginning of 1847 to the close of 1851, were most assuredly the season in which the genius of Dickens produced its richest and rarest...
1. CHAPTER I.Charles Dickens, the eldest son, and the second of the eight children, of John and Elizabeth Dickens, was born at Landport, a suburb of Portsea, on Friday, February 7, 1812. His...