| Edition |
[First U.S. edition]. |
| Description |
xiv, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 303-307. |
| Summary |
An extensive study of Dickens's childhood and youth, revealing how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, how he interpreted his youth to his readers and himself, and how those crucial years affected him as a writer and as a man. |
| Contents |
The better world 1812-1822 -- Warren's Blacking 1823-1824 -- Wellington House Academy 1824-1827 -- Messrs Ellis & Blackmore 1827-1828 -- Miss Maria Beadnell 1828-1833 -- The Chronicle reporter 1833-1835 -- Miss Catherine Hogarth 1835-1836 -- The inimitable Boz 1836-1837 -- Miss Mary Hogarth 1837 -- The novelist triumphant 1837-1839 -- Mrs. Charles Dickens 1839-1845 -- Epilogue: "You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?" |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-2008. Making of Charles Dickens. [1st U.S. ed.] New York, Harper & Row [1967] (OCoLC)644155839 |
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