Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · novelist · Britain
Arts and ideas26 years old in 1838
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.
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Queen Victoria · novelist and reader
1838 Queen Victoria read Oliver Twist and found it “exceedingly interesting”.
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