Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

thumb|The 1914 film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma, or to provide a mysterious or thought provoking

British caricaturist and book illustrator; (1792-1878)

thumb|upright|Sam Weller, from a watercolor by 'Joseph Clayton Clarke|Kyd' Wellerisms, named after sayings of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers, make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, Wellerisms that include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a Wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal explanation.

British artist (1815-1882)

née Hogarth, spouse of Charles Dickens (1815-1879)

British painter and child of Charles Dickens (1839-1929)

British actress (1839-1914)

author's house museum in London, United Kingdom

British caricaturist and illustrator (1817–1864)

English biographer and critic (1812–1876)

magazine edited by Charles Dickens

national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom (1846-1930)

episode of Doctor Who (S1 E3)

English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s

British illustrator (1798–1836)

painting by William Holman Hunt

crater on Mercury

housekeeper; sister-in-law of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens, sister of Catherine Hogarth Dickens

19th‐century British literary magazine

British artist (1804-1875)

child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens

father of Charles Dickens, clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office (1785-1851)

eldest child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens

human settlement in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States of America

King's Counsel and barrister; child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens

train wreck

talking raven kept as a pet by Charles Dickens