lit a candle 1 Sept 2026Not many people can say they made millions of strangers feel less alone. Charles could.
Their story
Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and Great Expectations, and used his fame to campaign against the poverty he had known as a child. He died at his home in Kent at 58.
In their own words
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
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5Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Reproduced from a c.1870s photographer frontispiece to Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol
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"Portrait of Charles John Huffman Dickens (1812-1870), wearing dark jacket and cravat, white waistcoat, his dark hair worn collar-length in long curls, 1843"
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A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Charles Dickens – English novelist and social critic (1812–1870
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Couldn't agree more.
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