Chapter 143

Maclise's sketch of Dickens's house in, iii. 41.

Dick, a favourite canary, iii. 117.

Dickens (John), family of, i. 22; small but good library of, i. 29; money embarrassments of, i. 36, 42; character of, described by his son, i. 37; arrested for debt, i. 43; legacy to, i. 64; leaves the Marshalsea, i. 66; on the education of his son, i. 89; becomes a reporter, i. 90; Devonshire home of, described, i. 186-189; death of, ii. 489; his grave at Highgate, ii. 490; sayings of, iii. 31, 32; respect entertained by his son for, iii. 31.

Dickens (Fanny), ii. 206, 456, 459; elected a pupil to the Royal Academy of Music, i. 39; obtains a prize thereat, i. 66; illness of, ii. 319, 320; death of, ii. 460; her funeral, i. 67.

Dickens (Alfred), i. 223, 288; death of, iii. 258.

Dickens, Augustus, (died in America), ii. 385.

Dickens (Frederick), i. 182, 261, 288 (and see ii. 476); narrow escape from drowning in the bay at Genoa, ii. 137; death of, iii. 450.

DICKENS, CHARLES, birth of, at Portsea, i. 21. reminiscences of childhood at Chatham, i. 23-36. relation of David Copperfield to, i. 28, 48, 92; iii. 33-35. his wish that his biography should be written by the author of this book, i. 40 note. first efforts at description, i. 42. account by himself of his boyhood, i. 50-69 (and see ii. 205-207; iii. 247). illnesses of, i. 60, 130, 244, 288; ii. 216, 297, 312 note;