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.

Charles reads the audiobook editions of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, and his book The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything, and he regularly attends sci-fi, comedy and memorabilia conventions in connection with the Red Dwarf franchise.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

* Monks ( Oliver Twist ), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Memex is featured in Charles Stross ' cross-genre novel The Atrocity Archives, and its sequels.

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

* Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain ( 1997 ) borrows much from the Odyssey to tell the story of an American Civil War veteran's homecoming.

* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

The term retcon is used several times in the 2010 novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by American writer Charles Yu.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert " Buck " Coulson, Now You See It / Him / Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons ; the latter includes an in-character " introduction " by Wilson Tucker ( himself a character in the novel ) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.

* Spin ( novel ), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.

** David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* January 3 – Charles Dickens commences writing the novel Hard Times.

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

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )