1812-1870

Examines the life of Charles Dickens, author of fourteen novels and numerous stories and essays, discussing his family and youth in Victorian England, his marriage, and the development of his career and fame as a writer.

Discusses the importance, historical context, and critical reception of Dickens's A tale of two cities.

Contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide a wide variety of information about nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens, covering his novels and other writings, characters, biographical details, social themes, literary forms and terms, and other topics.

A biography and literary study of one of the best-known and best-loved English authors.

A biography of the English author whose novels served to arouse public opinion against the social injustices they depicted.