For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;

They do not escape the pitfall into which Charles Dickens pictured Mrs. Jellyby as falling.

Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.

* 1854 – Charles Dickens ' Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J. D.

In a twist on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the " kindest and loveliest " man in England.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

as some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Charles Dickens ' " Christmas Books ", and Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Charles Dickens makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, and there is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea.

In 2009 he also wrote a book, Drood, based on Charles Dickens ' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.

* 1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist ( d. 1870 )

* 1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

He wrote in the conclusion to his 1940 essay on Charles Dickens,

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

Alongside the earlier work of Edwin Chadwick, they are also regarded as a decisive influence on the thinking of Charles Dickens.

A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

* 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

* 1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

* 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

* 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called " Evolution Day "

; 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, which leads to various reactions.

* Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.

* November 24 – British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that species gradually evolve through natural selection ( it immediately sells out its initial print run ).

* May 26 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Charles Dickens publishes The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son and David Copperfield.

* Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859

* December 1 – Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.

* Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby

* July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a " difference engine ", a forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions.

* September – Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first significant American novel, the Gothic fiction Wieland: or, The Transformation ; an American Tale.

* French writer Charles Perrault publishes a collection of favourite fairy tales, including Red Riding Hood and The Sleeping Beauty.

* 1802 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac publishes Charles's law, discovered ( but unpublished ) by Jacques Charles around 1787 ; this shows the dependency between temperature and volume.

* 1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae

* 1830 – Sir Charles Lyell publishes book, Principles of Geology, which describes the world as being several hundred million years old

* Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Little Dorrit ( in installments through 1857 ).

* 1859 — Charles Darwin publishes On The Origin of Species.

In addition to books by Beat Generation authors, the press publishes literary work by such authors as Charles Bukowski, Georges Bataille, Rikki Ducornet, Paul Bowles, Sam Shepard, Andrei Voznesensky, Nathaniel Mackey, Alejandro Murguía, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernesto Cardenal, Daisy Zamora, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Goytisolo, Anne Waldman, André Breton, Kamau Daáood, Masha Tupitsyn, and Rebecca Brown.

* Charles Bell presents a paper to the Royal Society, " On the Nerves, Giving an Account of some Experiments on their Structure and Functions, which lead to a New Arrangement of the System ", identifying Bell's palsy ; and also publishes his book Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy ( illustrated by himself ).

* Charles Waterton publishes Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824 ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, & c. for cabinets of natural history.

* Charles Bell publishes his Nervous System of the Human Body.