Washington Irving, William C. Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and Charles Dickens!" But in New York came many others determined to see the great author, and if possible make him useful for their ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles ... I was an author, and ...

Household Words was an unillustrated weekly magazine conducted and edited by Charles Dickens from late March 1850 through ... The first issue featured Lizzie Leigh, a story by Mrs. Gaskell (author of ...