Charles Dickens: A Life (2 page)

p. 7

Birmingham Town Hall, where Dickens appeared from the 1840s (
Town Hall, Birmingham
by L. Tallis/Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)

Lord John Russell (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Frank Stone (
Bookman
, 1914, from a photograph by Herbert Watkins)

Clarkson Stanfield (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

John Leech (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

p. 8

Dickens, photographed by Henri Claudet in 1850 (from an original daguerreotype, 1853)

John, Dickens’s father, in later years

p. 1

Dickens with his theatre group on lawn of Tavistock House, 1857 (reproduced from Francesco Berger’s
Reminiscences, Impressions and Anecdotes
, courtesy of the British Library)

Portrait of Dickens by W. P. Frith, 1859, commissioned by John Forster

p. 2

Catherine Dickens in middle age

Georgina Hogarth, portrait by Augustus Egg, 1850

Mrs Ternan, drawn by her daughter Maria (courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum)

The Ternan sisters: Maria, Nelly, Fanny (courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum)

Nelly Ternan (courtesy of Mrs L. Fields)

p. 3

The Staplehurst train crash, June 1865 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Front of Gad’s Hill House (
Bookman
, 1914, photograph by Mason & Co., 1866)

p. 4

Eugène Scribe, playwright and librettist (private collection/Ken Welsh/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Alexandre Dumas père, novelist (private collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Céline Céleste, French dancer, actress and theatre manager (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Charles Fechter, French actor (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

p. 5

Dickens at the Paris morgue, drawing by G. J. Pinwell, from
The Uncommercial Traveller
, 1860

Dickens reading the murder of Nancy by Sikes

p. 6

Katey Dickens, ‘Lucifer Box’, as her father called her

Nelly Ternan, described by Dickens as his ‘magic circle of one’

Charley Dickens, the eldest son

Henry Dickens, the sixth and only successful son (© Lebrecht Authors)

p. 7

French cartoon of Dickens, by André Gill (
Bookman
, 1914)

American cartoon of Dickens, based on a photograph by Jeremiah Gurney, 1867

p. 8

Dickens at his desk, 1865 or later, photograph by Mason

p. 62
Sketch by Thackeray of Dickens, Thackeray himself and Francis Mahony (‘Father Prout’) with Macrone in his office

p. 68
Cover of monthly number of serialized
The Pickwick Papers
(Mary Evans Picture Library)

p. 77
Cruikshank drawing of Dickens in 1837

p. 105
Engraving of Dickens’s head from Maclise’s 1839 portrait of Dickens, the ‘Nickleby Portrait’ (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. I)

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Palazzo Peschiere, Genoa, engraving from drawing by Batson

p. 181
Rosemont, Lausanne, engraving from drawing by Mrs Watson (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. II)

p. 228
The offices of
Household Words
in Wellington Street (Mary Evans Picture Library)

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Tavistock House, acquired by Dickens in July 1851 (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. III)

p. 312
Dickens’s working notes in the
Great Expectations
manuscript (© Wisbech and Fenland Museum)

p. 338
The chalet at Gad’s Hill (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. III)

p. 362
Caricature from an American paper showing Dickens and his tour manager, George Dolby, on the eve of their departure for England (Dolby’s
Charles Dickens as I Knew Him
)

p. 392
The back of Gad’s Hill, showing the conservatory (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. III)

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Dickens’s grave in Westminster Abbey, engraved from a drawing by Luke Fildes (Forster’s
The Life of Charles Dickens
, Vol. III)