Charles Dickens
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A prolific novelist, journalist, and editor of periodicals such as Household Words and All the Year Round,
crucially shaped Victorian fiction both by developing it as a dialogical, multi-plotted, and socially aware form and by his innovations in publishing serially. As a novelist he worked across a range of genres, including the bildungsroman, picaresque, Newgate, sensation and detective fiction, and usually with satiric or socially critical force. He was loved by readers for his humour, grotesquerie, action, and vigour. An influential public figure and phenomenally successful lecturer during his lifetime, his work continues to be central to popular understandings of nineteenth-century England, and in particular London.
- BirthName: Charles John Huffam Dickens
- Pseudonyms: Boz; Timothy SparksThis pseudonym derives from his brother's mispronunciation of Moses.'s family nickname,Sunday under Three Heads.used this name in publishing his 1836 anti-sabbatarian pamphlet,
- Indexed: Charles Dickens