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Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.

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  • Among this author's title characters are Dombey & Son, Barnaby Rudge, & Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Appropriately, he dedicated "Our Mutual Friend" to Sir James Emerson Tennent, "as a memorial of friendship"
  • Don't believe the title: his "Little Dorrit" runs about 900 pages in various paperback editions
  • His London home & museum boasts the original "Golden Arm" sign mentioned in chapter 6 of "A Tale of Two Cities"
  • In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake"
  • He wrote "Oliver Twist" against the background of the Poor Law of 1834, which ended the supplemental dole to the poor
  • He first used the pseudonym Boz in the August 1834 issue of “The Monthly Magazine”
  • A Victorian novelist
  • At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge"
  • Marley & Co. weren't his only spirits; he also wrote about ghosts in "The Haunted House"
  • (Jimmy of the Clew Crew reports from Bloomsbury Square, London.) His "Barnaby Rudge", a novel of the 1780 anti-Catholic riots, describes the rioters' actions, & later their hanging, here--in Bloomsbury Square
  • What a twist! In a one-man show, Simon Callow played this "Oliver Twist" author & dozens of his characters
  • At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes
  • In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory
  • When used with "the", this last name of a British author is an exclamation meaning "the devil!"

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  • @staticsan true, but only because he included a Dickens parody in most episodes too!
  • Indeed! By Clif Dickens via
  • I feel like Charles Dickens with a candle on in the bathroom. This light needs fixing 😑
  • @frankobserver Truth about Dickens' perfidy is on whether Westminster has a cabal of paedos has yet to be finalised
  • RT @claudia_gori: Abbi un cuore che mai indurisce, un carattere che mai si stanca, ed un tocco che mai ferisce. Charles Dickens
  • @Cazatalentos @Lindepe ¡Ah! ¡Aquellos buenos tiempos que tan bien describía Carlos Dickens!
  • "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips." -Charles Dickens
  • A video in which Geoffrey Dickens & Cyril Smith, amongst others, lip sync & dance to Bananarama https://t.co/qqK5ZmYC5r (via @patrick_kidd)
  • Abbi un cuore che mai indurisce, un carattere che mai si stanca, ed un tocco che mai ferisce. Charles Dickens
  • Get hold of portable property. ― Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
  • He would make a lovely corpse. -- Charles Dickens
  • By Clif Dickens via
  • Abbi un cuore che mai indurisce, un carattere che mai si stanca, ed un tocco che mai ferisce. Charles Dickens
  • RT Jennifer : Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens #Quotes
  • #Entérate ¡este mes el cineclub infantil de @BiblioArtesCNA tendrá un ciclo dedicado a Charles DIckens! #entradalibre
  • What if Sienfeld was Dickens OLIVER TWIST: Plese sir , I want some more SOUP NAZI: NO SOUP FOR YOU
  • #AttorneyGeneral Sir #MichaelHavers warned #Dickens about naming MP's re #childabuse in #Parliament Let's see who's named :-)
  • Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. - Charles Dickens #quote via @BillCortright
  • The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world � Charles Dickens (please retweet)
  • Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens
  • "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in 1843- it took him just six weeks!
  • Really douchey of Germany to show off their happy kids when all the kids in Argentina are crying they're living in a Charles Dickens’ novel.
  • Hans Christian Andersen was a friend of Charles Dickens until he went to visit him in London and overstayed his welcome by several weeks.
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~ Charles Dickens #GiveMore
  • A lot of Dickens and Austen is YA. Jane Eyre is 18. And there isn’t a bigger teenager in the world than Hamlet!
  • David Mellor on today's Marr show said Dickens dossier as "pretty shoddy with very little substance" then, when asked, said he never saw it.
  • Westminster paedophile allegations were printed in every UK paper in 1982 & had nothing to do with Geoffrey Dickens
  • RT @martinbeckford: New by me: Police refuse to reveal if they have missing Dickens dossier but FOI response suggests they have
  • RT @literaturepics: Charles Dickens
  • 17 Slogans That Frankly Make More Sense Than the Real Ones, Pt. 5 via @HuffPostBiz
  • RT @ifilosofia: Este es un mundo de acción, no de quejas y lamentos. Charles Dickens
  • RT @literaturepics: Charles Dickens reading to his daughters
  • RT @yalc_uk: The Kissing Booth @reekles has been billed as ‘50 Shades of Teen’. She prefers ‘the Dickens of the ipad generation’ #YALC
  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA VOY A IR A LA CASA DE CHARLES DICKENS
  • RT @ifilosofia: "El hombre nunca sabe de lo que es capaz hasta que lo intenta. Charles Dickens
  • Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. - Charles Dickens
  • .@Reekles prefers being described as "Dickens of the iPad" to "50 Shades of Teen" #YALC
  • The Kissing Booth @reekles has been billed as ‘50 Shades of Teen’. She prefers ‘the Dickens of the ipad generation’ #YALC
  • Have #MetPolice have found #LeonBrittan lost #CSA files at #NSYNews
  • Charles Dickens (qotd) #dailyquotes #positivequote ;
  • What the Dickens? These inquiries into historic cases of child abuse are just symptoms of fear - via @Telegraph
  • RT @ZedTrafficker: Dickens dossier found?@discovery77_ @InnaMood @UpYours999 @C7RKY @ciabaudo @reeves3915 @robertBir…