# The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

**by John Forster** · Fiction · Free public-domain eBook

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## Opening of The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

C. D. æt. 27. From Maclise's Painting, by Graves, A.R.A. \_Title-page\_

Outline of the Maclise Painting of 1839. Engraved by Jeens 178

Fac-simile of Invitation to the Public Dinner in New York, with the signatures 309

Fac-simile of Invitation to the Public Ball in New York, with the signatures 309

CHARLES DICKENS, the most popular novelist of the century, and one of the greatest humorists that England has produced, was born at Landport in Portsea on Friday, the 7th of February, 1812.

His father, John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy-pay office, was at this time stationed in the Portsmouth dockyard. He had made acquaintance with the lady, Elizabeth Barrow, who became afterwards his wife, through her elder brother, Thomas Barrow, also engaged on the establishment at Somerset House; and she bore him in all a family of eight children, of whom two died in infancy. The eldest, Fanny (born 1810), was followed by Charles (entered in the baptismal register of Portsea as Charles John Huffham, though on the very rare occasions when he subscribed that name he wrote Huffam); by another son, named Alfred, who died in childhood; by Letitia (born 1816); by another daughter, Harriet, who died also in childhood; by Frederick (born 1820); by Alfred Lamert (born 1822); and by Augustus (born 1827); of all of whom only the second daughter now survives.

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