English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)

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Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Bumble / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.

Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Captain Cuttle / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.

An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Mr. Samuel Pickwick / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.

British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.

The lawyer Vholes advises Richard Carstone. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1853.

Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Micawber / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.

Bill Sikes attempting to drown his dog in a pond near Hatfield, Herts. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1838.

Sairey Gamp : Martin Chuzzlewit : Player's cigarettes / John Player & Sons.

The social life of fluids : blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / Jules Law.

David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.

Dickens's doctors / by David Waldron Smithers.

A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.

The election of a parish beadle in England: crowds thronging the entrance to the polling station, including supporters of the rival candidates, Spruggins and Bung, who expect to be elected according to the large number of their dependents. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.

A girl and her grandfather sit at the top of a hill which looks back over St Paul's cathedral. Lithograph by J. Barnard.

Oliver Twist, holding a bowl and a spoon, asks for more food, while other children and a woman look surprised. Etching by George Cruikshank.

A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.

A great day for the doctors / [Charles Dickens].

Doctors' bills / [Charles Dickens].

Bentley's miscellany

Voice of Charles Dickens.

Infallible physic / [Charles Dickens].

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Charles Dickens

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Images by Charles Dickens

Images featuring Charles Dickens

Works from the collections

A great day for the doctors / [Charles Dickens].

Doctors' bills / [Charles Dickens].

Bentley's miscellany

Voice of Charles Dickens.

Infallible physic / [Charles Dickens].

Frequent collaborators

Charles Dickens

Images from the collections

Images by Charles Dickens

Images featuring Charles Dickens

Works from the collections

A great day for the doctors / [Charles Dickens].

Doctors' bills / [Charles Dickens].

Bentley's miscellany

Voice of Charles Dickens.

Infallible physic / [Charles Dickens].

Frequent collaborators

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