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Charles Dickens, His Life and Work (Part One)

Acclaimed in his lifetime for his remarkable literary career, Charles Dickens’ private life was wracked by dysfunction, scandal and the cruelty he inflicted on his wife and his children.

Charles Dickens, as a younger man
Catherine Dickens, 1838
Ebeneezer Scrooge and Marley’s ghost, A Christmas Carol
Grip, the Raven. Barnaby Rudge
Freddy Bartholomew, in the original MGM version of David Copperfirld
Dickens, in later life

Charles Dickens, His Life and Work (Part Two)

Acclaimed in his lifetime for his remarkable literary career, Charles Dickens’ private life was wracked by dysfunction, scandal and the cruelty he inflicted on his wife and his children.

Portrait of Dickens, 1850
Catherine Hogarth Dickens, 1852
Gerorgina Hogarth and Dickens daughter, Mamie
Charles Dickens, in hat, with family
Grave of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abbey
Catherine Dickens and daughter’s grave, Highgate Cemetery, London