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Charles dickens biography images
[ABOVE] Charles Dickens (aged 18). Miniature portrait by Mrs Janet Barrow (an aunt of Charles Dickens). This is the earliest authenticated portrait of Charles Dickens as a young man and, given that it was created by someone who knew him intimately and before he achieved fame as an author, is probably the most honest representation of his features.
| Charles Dickens was probably the most famous writer and most popular novelist in Victorian England.
It is therefore not surprising that his face appeared in hundreds of drawings, paintings, engravings and photographs between the appearance of his first serialised novel in 1836 (The Pickwick Papers) and his death in 1870, aged 58. The most iconic and enduring picture of Charles Dickens is as a sombre, balding man in late middle-age, sporting a grizzled, unkempt beard, yet this image of the novelist was not established until the last dozen years of his life. As a young man, Charles Dickens was often described an |