DICKENS

Charles John Huffam ( 2 child of the succeeding ). b. 387 Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Land port, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812; a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons 1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to 1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devons hire terrace, Regent’s park 1839–51, at 1 Tav i stock villas, Tav i stock sq. 1851–60 and at Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited Bentley’s Miscellany , Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple 1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America 1842 and 1867–8; edited Daily News 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846; started Household Words 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859 when he merged it into All the year round which he edited 30 April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading 5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of Sketches by Boz 2 vols. 1835, 2nd series 1 vol. 1836; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1837, and 32 other works. ( m. at St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the Morning Chronicle , from whom he separated April or May 1858, she d. 70 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64). d. Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. bur. in Westminster abbey 14 June. J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1872–74, portrait ; Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1880–82; Charles Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby 1885; J. T. Fields’s In and out of doors with Charles Dickens 1876; Charles Dickens by G. A. Sala 1870; P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i , 48–171 (1882); C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent 1872; E. Yates’s Recollections ii , 91–128 (1884); J. H. Fris well’s Modern men of letters (1870) 1–48; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii , 303–34 (1858), portrait ; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i , 1–76 (1844), portrait ; Bookseller, July 1870 pp. 573–78, and Christmas number 1879 pp. 15–21; Illust. News of the world vol. ii (1858), portrait ; Graphic xx , 556 (1879), portrait of Mrs. Dickens . Note. —He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856 was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July 1870.