* The Frozen Deep A play written with Wilkie Collins and initially performed in the converted schoolroom of Dickens's London residence, Tavistock House ( 6 January, 1857 )

* February – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

One scene in particular bears a resemblance to " The Raven ": at the end of the fifth chapter of Dickens's novel, Grip makes a noise and someone says, " What was that – him tapping at the door?

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

Among such of his designs are four charming plates to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ), the broadly humorous etchings in the Comic History of England ( 1847 – 1848 ), and the still finer illustrations to the Comic History of Rome ( 1852 ) — which last, particularly in its minor woodcuts, shows some exquisitely graceful touches, as witness the fair faces that rise from the surging water in Cloelia and her Companions Escaping from the Etruscan Camp.

In popular culture, the adjective Dickensian is sometimes used in reference to this view, but Charles Dickens's view of the rural past evoked nostalgia, not fantasy.

Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.

From within the English department, Professor John Drew runs Dickens Journals Online, the project which has put the whole of Dickens's journalistic output on free-access on the web.

The father of the English author Charles Dickens was sent to one of these prisons ( the Marshalsea ), which were often described in Dickens's novels.

Whereas humbug in broader English ( see Charles Dickens's Scrooge character ) means nonsensical, or unimportant information, humbug in Aboriginal English means to pester with inane or repetitive requests.

In " The Mystery of Edwin Drood ", a Broadway musical based on Charles Dickens's last, unfinished work, the audience must vote for who they think the murderer is, as well as the real identity of the detective and the couple who end up together.

In fiction, the " Saracen's Head Inn " in Towcester features in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers as one of Mr Pickwick's stopping places along what is now the A5 trunk road.

Dickens's life and fiction reveal other connections between theatre and Mesmerism.

In 1836, the publication of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers in an illustrated serialized format revolutionised the publication of new fiction.

The popularity of the original illustrations in Dickens's novels was unprecedented, and helped to popularize the use of illustrations in serious fiction.

Ten years later, Dickens's Great Expectations contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters ( Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham ), and focuses on the hero's guilt.

Another subcategory is wellerisms, named after Sam Weller from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ( 1837 ).

In Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers ( 1836 / 7 ), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats " for beefsteak, veal and kidney, ' cording to the demand ", and recommends that people should buy pies only " when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kitten.

Dickens's satire on Catlin and others like him who might find something to admire in the American Indians or African bushmen is a notable turning point in the history of the use of the phrase.

However in Nel's opinion Rowling's humour is more based on caricature and the names she invents are more like those found in Charles Dickens's stories, and Amanda Cockrell noted that many of these express their owners ' traits through allusions that run from ancient Roman mythology to eighteenth century German literature.

Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is set amid the Gordon Riots, and A Tale of Two Cities in the French Revolution.

Since its widespread availability after World War II the most popular Christmas roast is turkey, superseding the goose of Dickens's time.

The first occupant of 18 Adam Street was the Adelphi Tavern, which is mentioned in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers.

In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Clerkenwell Green is where Fagin and the Artful Dodger induct Oliver into pickpocketing amongst shoppers in the busy market once held there.

The film has also been compared to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in that the protagonist is a greedy man who cares little about anyone except himself and then has his life outlook completely changed after a series of real-life " what if?

Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1850 novel, David Copperfield.

Another category is words derived from famous characters in literature, such as quixotic ( referring to the titular character in Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes ), a scrooge ( from the main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol ), or a pollyanna ( from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name ).

Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.

* 30 April-Charles Dickens's new weekly magazine All the Year Round is published for the first time, succeeding Household Words.

In literature, evil stepfathers include Claudius in Hamlet ( though his role as uncle is more emphasized ), Murdstone in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, the classic Twilight Zone episode " Living Doll ," the King from the movie Radio Flyer, and Gozaburo Kaiba ( who adopted Seto and Mokuba Kaiba ) from Yu-Gi-Oh !, as well as The Stepfather, films.

A copy was found in Dickens's library after his death, though it is unlikely Dickens heard the same patriotic message as much of Dibdin's audience.

* Mr. Samuel Pickwick-protagonist of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, who is imprisoned in the Fleet for refusing to pay fines stemming from a breach of promise suit brought against him by Mrs. Bardell.

" If I Ruled the World " is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick ( based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ).

As the story begins, Thursday is temporarily promoted to investigate the theft of the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit because she is one of the few people able to identify the thief, Acheron Hades.

* In the musical Oliver !, Mr. Brownlow lives on Bloomsbury Square, while in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, on which the musical is based, he lives in Pentonville.

It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge.

* In Monica Dickens's 1946 novel The Happy Prisoner, Evelyn plays halma with her cousin Oliver North.

( playing Émile Zola ), The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( with Gary Cooper ), The L-Shaped Room ( with Leslie Caron ), and a made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield ( with an all-star cast including Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson and Edith Evans ).

His TV career saw him measure with Inside the Third Reich ( 1982 ), where he played Hitler ; Mr Pye ( 1985 ); and Little Dorrit ( 1987 ), from Charles Dickens's book ; The Tenth Man ( 1988 ) with Anthony Hopkins and Kristin Scott Thomas.

He appears in five 2009 films: Morris: A Life with Bells On, Hippie Hippie Shake, Endgame, Adam Resurrected and Charles Dickens's England.

In 1853 she submitted work to Dickens's Household Words under the name " Mary Berwick ", wishing that her work be judged on its own merits rather than in relation to Dickens's friendship with her father ; Dickens did not learn " Berwick's " identity till the following year.

The poem's publication began Proctor's long association with Dickens's periodicals ; in all, Procter published 73 poems in Household Words and 7 poems in All the Year Round, most of which were collected into her first two volumes of poetry, both entitled Legends and Lyrics.

Nunn became a leading figure in theatrical circles, and was responsible for many ground-breaking productions, such as the RSC's version of Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, co-directed with John Caird, and a 1976 musical adaptation of the Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors.

The hero of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations, Pip, lodged in Barnard's Inn with Herbert Pocket for a number of years following his arrival in London ( c.

His valuable collection of manuscripts, including the original copies of Charles Dickens's novels, together with his books and pictures, was bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum.

In 1853, he moved to New York, where he soon became a hit with plays like The Poor of New York ( 1857 ), Dot ( 1859, based on Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth ) and The Octoroon ( 1859 ).

" Grind schools ", ( possibly connected with Gradgrind, the headmaster in Dickens's novel Hard Times ) as they are known in the Republic of Ireland, prepare students for the Leaving Certificate examination.

Almost immediately following Charles Dickens's death, playwrights and theatre companies have mounted versions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood with varying degrees of popularity, success, and faithfulness to the original work.

* Opening page of the Christmas 1859 extra issue, with Dickens's short story " The Haunted House "

He observes that this is based in part on Dickens's ' recognition that solemn themes require humour and verbal vigour to accompany and complement them ' and goes on to conclude: Grim psychological realism, social commentary, comic absurdity and symbolic transcendence are here brought together more than in any previous novel with the possible exception of Oliver Twist.

After dancing with Dickens's wife, Willis and Dickens went out for " rum toddy and broiled oysters ".

The Cheshire Cheese Pub is famously alluded to in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: following Charles Darnay ’ s acquittal on charges of high treason, Sydney Carton invites him to dine, " drawing his arm through his own " Sydney leads him to Fleet Street " up a covered way, into a tavern … where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine ".

Seventeen stage productions opened during the Christmas season 1845 with one production receiving Dickens's approval and opening on the same day as the book's release.

He was an active journalist on The Times and The Morning Herald, contributed a series of light articles to The Illustrated London News, conducted in 1846 The Almanack of the Month and found time to produce some fifty or sixty plays, among them dramatized versions of Charles Dickens's shorter stories, written in collaboration with Mark Lemon.