Charles Dickens

1812–1870

The most popular English novelist of the Victorian age, who serialised novels including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities to enormous audiences and used fiction to campaign against poverty and injustice.

Timeline of Charles Dickens’s life

Works

• The Pickwick Papers (1836)
• Sketches by Boz (1836)
• Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)
• Oliver Twist (1837)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1838)
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1840)
• Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
• Barnaby Rudge (1841)
• The Lamplighter (1841)
• American Notes (1842)
• A Christmas Carol (1843)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
• The Chimes (1844)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
• The Battle of Life (1846)
• Dombey and Son (1846)
• Pictures from Italy (1846)
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
• David Copperfield (1849)
• Some Christmas Stories (1850)
• A Child’s History of England (1851)
• Bleak House (1852)
• Hard Times (1854)
• Little Dorrit (1855)
• Going into Society (1858)
• Reprinted Pieces (1858)
• Hunted Down (1859)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• Great Expectations (1860)
• The Uncommercial Traveller (1860)
• Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings (1863)
• Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy (1864)
• Our Mutual Friend (1864)
• Doctor Marigold (1865)
• Captain Boldheart and the Latin-Grammar Master (1868)
• George Silverman’s Explanation (1868)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
• Book the First - Recalled to Life
• Book the Second - The Golden Thread
• Book the Third - The Track of a Storm
• Three Ghost Stories
• The Trial of William Tinkling