Books/Writings
Charles Dickens
1812 – 1870
English

Novelist. A prolific and popular writer, his fiction was often didactive in purpose and tone, and succeeded in arousing popular indignation about social injustices, especially the living conditions of the poor.

Contemporaries
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1866–1943Beatrix Potter
1839–1894Walter Pater
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1834–1896William Morris
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1792–1866John Keble
1795–1821John Keats
1820–1903Herbert Spencer
1832–1902G. A. Henty
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1847–1933Annie Besant
1775–1817Jane Austen
1822–1888Matthew Arnold