Charles Dickens — Biographical Information (original) (raw)

Basic Materials

• A Brief Biography
• A Chronology of his Life
• Dickens's business card — the first time his name appeared in print?
• A Chronology of the Various Residences of Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
• Dickens's homes and other places associated with him
• The London of Dickens's Lifetime: Maps and Landmarks
• Dickens's travels
• Major Biographies of Dickens — a Critical Overview
• A Biographical Sketch of Charles Dickens from the 1860 Harper's Weekly
• Debtors in Charles Dickens's Life and Works
• William Winter's reminiscences of Dickens
• Dickens's London: An annotated map from David Persue's Charles Dickens Page
• "The Smallness of the World": Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street

Major People and Events in Dickens's Life

• The Blacking Factory and Dickens's Imaginative World
• John Forster: Essayist, Historian, Editor, Friend, 1812-1876.
• Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854): The Original "Tommy Traddles"
• Catherine Dickens, Dickens's wife
• Mary Scott Hogarth, 1820-1837: Dickens's Beloved Sister-in-Law and Inspiration
• Dickens's affair with Ellen Lawless Ternan
• How the Dickens Scandal Went Viral
• Dickens's children (chart and sitemap)
• Charles Dickens Relieving the Sufferers at the Fatal Railway Accident Near Staplehurst
• Autobiographical Elements in Dickens's Great Expectations
• The physical situation of David Copperfield's Adelphi rooms
• The Biographical Context of Great Expectations (1861)
• “No Escape to be Had, No Absolution to be Got”: Divorce in the Lives and Novels of Charles Dickens and Caroline Norton

Dickens's Professional Career

• Dickens' Professional Career [Chapter 1 of E. D. H. Johnson's Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels.
• Dickens's Popularity
• Publishing in Parts, Periodicals, and Dickens's Working Methods
• Dickens as actor and as performer of his own works
• Dickens "the man who invented Christmas"
• Dickens in Montreal, 1842
• Dickens ('Boz') in Boston, 1842 and 1867-78
• Dickens's 1842 Reading Tour: Launching the Copyright Question in Tempestuous Seas
• Dickens's 1867-68 Reading Tour: Re-Opening the Copyright Question
• Dickens as he appeared when giving a public reading of his works

Related Material

• Dickens in Drawing and Painting
• Dickens in Caricature
• Dickens in Caricature: In Memoriam — Dickens and His Characters
• Dickens in Photography
• The Invisible Woman (2014) — A film about Charles Dickens and Nell Ternan

Last modified 11 September 2020