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Charles Dickens Jr.
Charles Dickens Jr.
	Dickens Jr. in 1874
Born	Charles Culliford Boz Dickens; 6 January 1837; Furnival's Inn, Holborn, London, England
Died	20 July 1896 (aged 59); Fulham, London, England
Resting place	Mortlake cemetery
Occupation	Writer, Editor
Nationality	English
Notable works	The Life of Charles James Mathews; Dickens's Dictionary of London; Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames; Dickens's Dictionary of Paris; John Jasper's Secret: Sequel to Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood (with Wilkie Collins)
Spouse	Elisabeth Matilda Moule Evans
Children	8, including Mary Angela Dickens;
Parents	Charles Dickens (father); Catherine Hogarth (mother);

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Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896), better known as Charles Dickens Jr., was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.^[1] A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine All the Year Round, and a writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books, Dickens's Dictionary of London and Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames.^[2]

Life and career

Charles Dickens Jr. was born at Furnival's Inn in Holborn, London, the first child of Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Hogarth.^[1] He was called "Charley" by family and friends. In 1847, aged ten, he entered the junior department of King's College, London.^[3] He went to Eton College, and visited Leipzig in 1853 to study German.^[1] In 1855, aged 18, he entered Barings Bank.^[2] In 1858, after his parents' separation, his father agreed he should live with his mother.^[2]

As a young man, Dickens showed skills that could have led to a career in journalism but his father encouraged him to go into business.^[4] With ambitions to become a tea merchant, he visited China, Hong Kong and Japan in 1860.^[1]

In 1861, he married Elisabeth Matilda Moule Evans, daughter of Frederick Mullett Evans, his father's former publisher.^[2] They had eight children:^[5]

Mary Angela (1862–1948)
Ethel Kate (1864–1936)
Charles Walter (1865–1923)
Sydney Margaret (1866–1955)
Dorothy Gertrude (1868–1923)
Beatrice (1869–1937)
Cecil Mary (1871–1952)
Evelyn Bessie (1873–1924)

In 1866 he was appointed as the first Honorary Secretary of the Metropolitan Regatta.^[6] In 1868, after the failure of his printing business, and bankruptcy, he was hired by his father to work at All the Year Round and was appointed sub-editor the following year.^[1]^[2] In 1870, after his father's death, Dickens Jr. inherited the magazine and became its editor.^[7] At this time he also bought at auction Gads Hill Place, his father's Kent home, but he was forced to give it up in 1879.^[2]

In 1879 he published (jointly with his father-in-law) the first editions of his two main dictionaries, Dickens's Dictionary of London and Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames.^[2] In 1882 his dictionaries were picked up by Macmillan & Co. who also released his third dictionary, Dickens's Dictionary of Paris, delayed by verifications explained in its introduction.^[8]^[9]

Charles Dickens Jr. died of heart disease, at his home in Fulham, London, on 20 July 1896, aged 59. He was buried at Old Mortlake Burial Ground on 23 July 1896.^[1]

Legacy

Dickens's estate was worth £17 5s. 3d at his death,^[1] and his widow was granted a government pension of £100 per year.^[10] After her death in 1909 yearly civil list pensions of £25 were granted to Mary Angela, Dorothy Gertrude, Cecil Mary and Evelyn Bessie after "consideration of their straitened circumstances".^[11] In 1910 their situation was so difficult that Ethel Dickens wrote to the Lord Chief Justice Richard Alverstone to seek assistance.^[12] In the letter, which was also published in The Daily Telegraph, she explained that her sisters were "barely making a living" as secretaries and babysitters and that her doctor told her to take six months' rest due to overwork.^[12]

As the centenary of their grandfather's birth approached, the reduced circumstances of Charles Jr.'s daughters led to a public fundraising appeal.^[13] On 7 January 1912 a gala performance in which "leading actors and actresses" appeared as Dickens's characters at the London Coliseum raised £2500, while a separate appeal by The Daily Telegraph added an additional £3882.^[14] By the close of the fund in March 1912 it held £12,000, which was to provide £150 per year to each of the daughters.^[15]

Author Lucinda Hawksley, a descendant of the elder Charles Dickens, has written that "the girls' begging letter" caused embarrassment for their uncle, London barrister Henry Fielding Dickens,^[12] while the daughters of another uncle, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, gave an interview to a newspaper in Australia, where they had been raised, to make clear that they were not seeking any part of the funds.^[16]

Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin said Charles Walter, only son of Dickens Jr., had been disowned by the family for marrying Ella Dare, a barmaid.^[12] Sydney Margaret went on to marry architect Thomas Bostock Whinney.^[17] Ethel died in 1936 of an overdose of phenobarbital at her flat in Chelsea, London.^[18]

Bibliography

Dickens's publications include:

1879 – The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches.^[19]
1879 – Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook.^[20]
1879 – Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore.^[21]^[22]
1881 – Dickens's Dictionary of Days.^[23]
1882 – Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook.^[24]
1884 – A Dictionary of the University of Cambridge.^[25]
1884 – A Dictionary of the University of Oxford.^[26]

He also wrote the introductions to many posthumous reprints of his father's books, such as Barnaby Rudge,^[27] Oliver Twist,^[28] Bleak House,^[29] and Little Dorrit,^[30] providing biographical and bibliographical insights. His Reminiscences of My Father was published posthumously in 1934.^[31]

Dickens's Dictionary of London

Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook is the main book of Charles Dickens Jr.^[32] It was first published in London in 1879, by "Charles Dickens and Evans" (Dickens Jr. and his father-in-law, publisher Frederick Evans).

The book was then updated and reprinted every year until the author's death, from 1880 (second year) to the final 1896–1897 edition (eighteenth year). His dictionaries had been picked up in 1882 by Macmillan & Co. who printed them until 1889, after which it was again published by Dickens and Evans through J. Smith.^[33]

Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames

Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, From Oxford to the Nore: An Unconventional Handbook is the second book of Charles Dickens Jr. The "1880" edition was first published in London in 1879, by "Charles Dickens and Evans" (Dickens Jr. and his father-in-law, publisher Frederick Evans). The next 1880 edition and further were slightly retitled to Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, From Its Source to the Nore: An Unconventional Handbook.

The book was then updated and reprinted every year until the author's death, from 1880 to the final 1896 edition. His dictionaries had been picked up in 1882 by Macmillan & Co. who printed them until 1889, after which it was again published by Dickens and Evans through J. Smith.^[34]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7600. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Paul Schlicke (3 November 2011). The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-964018-8.
^ Banerjee, Jacqueline. "The University of London and Its Boys' Schools". VictoriaWeb. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
^ Maslin, Janet (6 December 2012). "Living Under Great Expectations". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Claire Tomalin (6 October 2011). Charles Dickens: A Life. Penguin Books Limited. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-14-197145-2.
^ "History". Metropolitan Amateur Regatta. Metropolitan Regatta. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Death of Charles Dickens, Jun". Australian Town and Country Journal. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 12 September 1896. p. 31. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ Antiquarian Books, Johnnycake Books Inc: "Dickens's Dictionary of Paris 1882: An Unconventional Handbook London MacMillan 1882, First Edition Decorated Cloth Boards Good Scarcest of the Dickens's dictionaries, with a preface by the author attesting that his "determination on my part not to issue the book until I was quite satisfies that the information contained in it was trustworthy and to the point" caused delay of its publication." [...] Scarce Dickens item."
^ Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of Paris (search with typo "Dicken" finds more results, both with and without typo)
^ "The Worship of Dickens". The New Zealand Herald. 10 February 1912. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "New Civil List Pensions". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 7 July 1909. Retrieved 2 December 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Robert Gottlieb (27 November 2012). Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-4668-2776-9.
^ "His Memory Green". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 9 January 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "CHARLES DICKENS CENTENARY". Geelong Advertiser. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 10 January 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "DICKENS FUND". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 30 March 1912. p. 5. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "Dickens Fund". The Queensland Times. National Library of Australia. 18 January 1912. p. 6 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "Whinney, Margaret [Dickens]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Ethel Kate Dickens Is Victim of Drug". The Montreal Gazette. 6 June 1936. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Catalog record for The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches at the United States Library of Congress
^ Catalog record for Dickens's Dictionary of London at the United States Library of Congress
^ "Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore". Main catalogue entry. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Catalog record for Dickens's dictionary of the Thames at the United States Library of Congress
^ Catalog record for Dickens's dictionary of days, being an every-day record of 1880. With calendar of useful information for 1881. at the United States Library of Congress
^ Dickens, Charles Jr. (1882). Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook. London: Macmillan. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "A dictionary of the university of Cambridge". Main catalogue entry. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Dickens, Charles Jr. (1885). A Dictionary of the University of Oxford. London: Macmillan. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ Catalog record for Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens; a reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress
^ Catalog record for Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. A reprint of the first ed., with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress
^ Catalog record for Bleak house, by Charles Dickens; with forty illustrations by Phiz and facsimile of wrapper to first part; a reprint of the edition corrected by the author in 1869, with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress
^ Catalog record for Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations by Phiz. A reprint of the first ed. with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens, the younger. at the United States Library of Congress
^ Personal reminiscences of Charles Dickens. WorldCat. OCLC 34707966. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Donald Hawes (13 May 2007). Charles Dickens. A&C Black. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8264-8963-0.
^ Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of London
^ Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames (search with typo "Dicken" finds more results, both with and without typo)

External links

Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook (1882) at the Internet Archive.
Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook (1884) at the Internet Archive.
Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook (1882) at the Internet Archive.
Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore (1885) at the Internet Archive.
A Dictionary of the University of Oxford (1885) at the Internet Archive.
Dickens Jr's nomination paper for King's College completed by Charles Dickens Sr. and signed by Angela Burdett-Coutts – at Victorian Web.

[ODNB-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7600. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[Schlicke2011-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Paul Schlicke (3 November 2011). The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-964018-8.

[Banerjee-3] Banerjee, Jacqueline. "The University of London and Its Boys' Schools". VictoriaWeb. Retrieved 21 August 2014.

[4] Maslin, Janet (6 December 2012). "Living Under Great Expectations". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[Tomalin2011-5] Claire Tomalin (6 October 2011). Charles Dickens: A Life. Penguin Books Limited. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-14-197145-2.

[6] "History". Metropolitan Amateur Regatta. Metropolitan Regatta. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[7] "Death of Charles Dickens, Jun". Australian Town and Country Journal. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 12 September 1896. p. 31. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[8] Antiquarian Books, Johnnycake Books Inc: "Dickens's Dictionary of Paris 1882: An Unconventional Handbook London MacMillan 1882, First Edition Decorated Cloth Boards Good Scarcest of the Dickens's dictionaries, with a preface by the author attesting that his "determination on my part not to issue the book until I was quite satisfies that the information contained in it was trustworthy and to the point" caused delay of its publication." [...] Scarce Dickens item."

[9] Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of Paris (search with typo "Dicken" finds more results, both with and without typo)

[10] "The Worship of Dickens". The New Zealand Herald. 10 February 1912. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[11] "New Civil List Pensions". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 7 July 1909. Retrieved 2 December 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[Gottlieb2012-12] Robert Gottlieb (27 November 2012). Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-4668-2776-9.

[13] "His Memory Green". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 9 January 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[14] "CHARLES DICKENS CENTENARY". Geelong Advertiser. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 10 January 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[15] "DICKENS FUND". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 30 March 1912. p. 5. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[16] "Dickens Fund". The Queensland Times. National Library of Australia. 18 January 1912. p. 6 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[17] "Whinney, Margaret [Dickens]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[18] "Ethel Kate Dickens Is Victim of Drug". The Montreal Gazette. 6 June 1936. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[19] Catalog record for The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches at the United States Library of Congress

[20] Catalog record for Dickens's Dictionary of London at the United States Library of Congress

[21] "Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore". Main catalogue entry. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[22] Catalog record for Dickens's dictionary of the Thames at the United States Library of Congress

[23] Catalog record for Dickens's dictionary of days, being an every-day record of 1880. With calendar of useful information for 1881. at the United States Library of Congress

[24] Dickens, Charles Jr. (1882). Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook. London: Macmillan. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[25] "A dictionary of the university of Cambridge". Main catalogue entry. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[26] Dickens, Charles Jr. (1885). A Dictionary of the University of Oxford. London: Macmillan. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[27] Catalog record for Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens; a reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress

[28] Catalog record for Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. A reprint of the first ed., with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress

[29] Catalog record for Bleak house, by Charles Dickens; with forty illustrations by Phiz and facsimile of wrapper to first part; a reprint of the edition corrected by the author in 1869, with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger. at the United States Library of Congress

[30] Catalog record for Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations by Phiz. A reprint of the first ed. with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens, the younger. at the United States Library of Congress

[31] Personal reminiscences of Charles Dickens. WorldCat. OCLC 34707966. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[Hawes2007-32] Donald Hawes (13 May 2007). Charles Dickens. A&C Black. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8264-8963-0.

[33] Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of London

[34] Worldcat.org, editions of Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames (search with typo "Dicken" finds more results, both with and without typo)

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-'''Charles Culliford Boz Dickens''' (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist [[Charles Dickens]] and his wife [[Catherine Dickens|Catherine]].<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB |id=7600 |title=Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz}}</ref> A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]'', and a successful writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books ''Dickens's Dictionary of London'' and ''Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames''.<ref name="Schlicke2011">{{cite book |author=Paul Schlicke |title=The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYCcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |date=3 November 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-964018-8 |page=94}}</ref>
+'''Charles Culliford Boz Dickens''' (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896), better known as '''Charles Dickens Jr.''', was the first child of the English novelist [[Charles Dickens]] and his wife [[Catherine Dickens|Catherine]].<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB |id=7600 |title=Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz}}</ref> A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine ''[[All the Year Round]]'', and a writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books, ''Dickens's Dictionary of London'' and ''Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames''.<ref name="Schlicke2011">{{cite book |author=Paul Schlicke |title=The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYCcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |date=3 November 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-964018-8 |page=94}}</ref>
 ==Life and career==
-Charles Dickens Jr. was born at [[Furnival's Inn]] in [[Holborn]], London, the first child of Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Hogarth.<ref name="ODNB"/> He was called "Charley" by family and friends. In 1847, aged 10, he entered the junior department of [[King's College, London]].<ref name="Banerjee">{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/education/ulondon/5.html |title=The University of London and Its Boys' Schools |last=Banerjee |first=Jacqueline |publisher=VictoriaWeb |accessdate=2014-08-21 }}</ref> He went to [[Eton College]], and visited [[Leipzig]] in 1853 to study German.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1855, aged 18, he entered [[Barings Bank]].<ref name="Schlicke2011"/> In 1858, after his parents' separation, his father agreed he should live with his mother.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/>
+Charles Dickens Jr. was born at [[Furnival's Inn]] in [[Holborn]], London, the first child of Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Hogarth.<ref name="ODNB"/> He was called "Charley" by family and friends. In 1847, aged ten, he entered the junior department of [[King's College, London]].<ref name="Banerjee">{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/education/ulondon/5.html |title=The University of London and Its Boys' Schools |last=Banerjee |first=Jacqueline |publisher=VictoriaWeb |access-date=2014-08-21 }}</ref> He went to [[Eton College]], and visited [[Leipzig]] in 1853 to study German.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1855, aged 18, he entered [[Barings Bank]].<ref name="Schlicke2011"/> In 1858, after his parents' separation, his father agreed he should live with his mother.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/>
-As a young man, Dickens showed skills that could have led to a career in journalism but his father encouraged him to go into business.<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/books/robert-gottliebs-book-on-dickens-and-his-children.html?_r=0 |title=Living Under Great Expectations |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012-12-06 |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref> With ambitions to become a tea merchant, he visited China, Hong Kong and Japan in 1860.<ref name="ODNB"/>
+As a young man, Dickens showed skills that could have led to a career in journalism but his father encouraged him to go into business.<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/books/robert-gottliebs-book-on-dickens-and-his-children.html?_r=0 |title=Living Under Great Expectations |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012-12-06 |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref> With ambitions to become a tea merchant, he visited China, Hong Kong and Japan in 1860.<ref name="ODNB"/>
 In 1861, he married Elisabeth Matilda Moule Evans, daughter of [[Frederick Mullett Evans]], his father's former publisher.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/> They had eight children:<ref name="Tomalin2011">{{cite book |author=Claire Tomalin |title=Charles Dickens: A Life |url=https://archive.org/details/charlesdickensli0000toma |url-access=registration |date=6 October 2011 |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |isbn=978-0-14-197145-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/charlesdickensli0000toma/page/24 24]}}</ref>
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-In 1866 he was appointed as the first Honorary Secretary of the [[Metropolitan Regatta]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metregatta.org/?page_id=37 |title=History |work=Metropolitan Amateur Regatta |publisher=[[Metropolitan Regatta]] |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref> In 1868, after the failure of his printing business, and bankruptcy, he was hired by his father to work at ''[[All the Year Round]]'' and was appointed sub-editor the following year.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Schlicke2011"/> In 1870, after his father's death, Dickens, Jr. inherited the magazine and became its editor.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71298278 |title=Death of Charles Dickens, Jun. |newspaper=[[Australian Town and Country Journal]] |location=Sydney |date=12 September 1896 |accessdate=23 August 2014 |page=31 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> At this time he also bought at auction [[Gads Hill Place]], his father's [[Kent]] home, but he was forced to give it up in 1879.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/>
+In 1866 he was appointed as the first Honorary Secretary of the [[Metropolitan Regatta]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metregatta.org/?page_id=37 |title=History |work=Metropolitan Amateur Regatta |publisher=[[Metropolitan Regatta]] |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref> In 1868, after the failure of his printing business, and bankruptcy, he was hired by his father to work at ''[[All the Year Round]]'' and was appointed sub-editor the following year.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Schlicke2011"/> In 1870, after his father's death, Dickens Jr. inherited the magazine and became its editor.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71298278 |title=Death of Charles Dickens, Jun. |newspaper=[[Australian Town and Country Journal]] |location=Sydney |date=12 September 1896 |access-date=23 August 2014 |page=31 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> At this time he also bought at auction [[Gads Hill Place]], his father's [[Kent]] home, but he was forced to give it up in 1879.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/>
 In 1879 he published (jointly with his father-in-law) the first editions of his two main dictionaries, ''Dickens's Dictionary of London'' and ''Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames''.<ref name="Schlicke2011"/> In 1882 his dictionaries were picked up by [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan & Co.]] who also released his third dictionary, ''Dickens's Dictionary of Paris'', delayed by verifications explained in its introduction.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011426/http://www.ilab.org/db/books2359_7.html Antiquarian Books, Johnnycake Books Inc]: "Dickens's Dictionary of Paris 1882: An Unconventional Handbook London MacMillan 1882, First Edition Decorated Cloth Boards Good Scarcest of the Dickens's dictionaries, with a preface by the author attesting that his "determination on my part not to issue the book until I was quite satisfies that the information contained in it was trustworthy and to the point" caused delay of its publication." [...] Scarce Dickens item."</ref><ref>[http://worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3ADicken<!--SIC, DICKEN WITHOUT S, FIND MORE RESULTS WITH TYPOS TOO-->%27s+Dictionary+of+Paris&fq=&se=yr&sd=asc&qt=sort_yr_asc Worldcat.org, editions of ''Dickens's Dictionary of Paris''] (search with typo "Dicken" finds more results, both with and without typo)</ref>
-Charles Dickens died of heart disease, at his home in [[Fulham]], London, on 20 July 1896, aged 59. He was buried at [[Mortlake Cemetery]] on 23 July 1896.<ref name="ODNB"/>
+Charles Dickens Jr. died of heart disease, at his home in [[Fulham]], London, on 20 July 1896, aged 59. He was buried at [[Old Mortlake Burial Ground]] on 23 July 1896.<ref name="ODNB"/>
-==After death==
+==Legacy==
-Dickens' estate was worth £17 5s. 3d at his death,<ref name="ODNB"/> and his widow was granted a government pension of £100 per year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19120210.2.42 |title=The Worship of Dickens |work=The New Zealand Herald|date=1912-02-10 |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref> After her death in 1909 yearly [[Civil list]] pensions of £25 were granted to Mary Angela, Dorothy Gertrude, Cecil Mary and Evelyn Bessie after 'consideration of their straitened circumstances'.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Civil List Pensions |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=7 July 1909 |accessdate=2 December 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19320406/060/0005 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> However, in 1910 their situation was so difficult that Ethel Dickens wrote to the [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice]] [[Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone|Richard Alverstone]] to seek assistance.<ref name="Gottlieb2012">{{cite book |author=Robert Gottlieb |title=Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71ySNkD_VRkC&pg=PT184 |date=27 November 2012 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-1-4668-2776-9 |pages=182–186}}</ref> In the letter, which was also published in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', she explained that her sisters, while employed in positions caring for children and as secretaries were "barely making a living", and while Ethel Kate herself had been more successful, her doctor had required her to take six months' rest due to overwork.<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/>
+Dickens's estate was worth £17 5s. 3d at his death,<ref name="ODNB"/> and his widow was granted a government pension of £100 per year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19120210.2.42 |title=The Worship of Dickens |work=The New Zealand Herald|date=1912-02-10 |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref> After her death in 1909 yearly [[civil list]] pensions of £25 were granted to Mary Angela, Dorothy Gertrude, Cecil Mary and Evelyn Bessie after "consideration of their straitened circumstances".<ref>{{cite news |title=New Civil List Pensions |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=7 July 1909 |access-date=2 December 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19320406/060/0005 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1910 their situation was so difficult that Ethel Dickens wrote to the [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice]] [[Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone|Richard Alverstone]] to seek assistance.<ref name="Gottlieb2012">{{cite book |author=Robert Gottlieb |title=Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71ySNkD_VRkC&pg=PT184 |date=27 November 2012 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-1-4668-2776-9 |pages=182–186}}</ref> In the letter, which was also published in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', she explained that her sisters were "barely making a living" as secretaries and babysitters and that her doctor told her to take six months' rest due to overwork.<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/>
-As the centenary of their grandfather's birth approached, the reduced circumstances of Charles Junior's daughters led to a public fundraising appeal.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113811517 |title=His Memory Green. |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Sydney)|The Evening News]]|location=Sydney |date=9 January 1912 |accessdate=23 August 2014 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> On 7 January 1912 a gala performance where "leading actors and actresses" appeared as Dickens' characters' at the [[London Coliseum]] raised £2500, while a separate appeal by ''The Daily Telegraph'' added an additional £3882.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149234312 |title=CHARLES DICKENS CENTENARY. |newspaper=[[Geelong Advertiser]] |location=Vic. |date=10 January 1912 |accessdate=23 August 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> By the close of the fund in March 1912 it held £12,000, which was to provide £150 per year to each of the daughters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39900955 |title=DICKENS FUND. |newspaper=[[The Cairns Post]] |location=Qld. |date=30 March 1912 |accessdate=23 August 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
+As the centenary of their grandfather's birth approached, the reduced circumstances of Charles Jr.'s daughters led to a public fundraising appeal.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113811517 |title=His Memory Green. |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Sydney)|The Evening News]]|location=Sydney |date=9 January 1912 |access-date=23 August 2014 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> On 7 January 1912 a gala performance in which "leading actors and actresses" appeared as Dickens's characters at the [[London Coliseum]] raised £2500, while a separate appeal by ''The Daily Telegraph'' added an additional £3882.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149234312 |title=CHARLES DICKENS CENTENARY. |newspaper=[[Geelong Advertiser]] |location=Vic. |date=10 January 1912 |access-date=23 August 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> By the close of the fund in March 1912 it held £12,000, which was to provide £150 per year to each of the daughters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39900955 |title=DICKENS FUND. |newspaper=[[The Cairns Post]] |location=Qld. |date=30 March 1912 |access-date=23 August 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
-Author [[Lucinda Hawksley]], a descendant of the elder Charles Dickens, has written that "the girls' begging letter" caused embarrassment for their uncle, London barrister [[Henry Fielding Dickens]],<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/> while the daughters of another uncle, [[Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens]], gave an interview to a newspaper in Australia, where they had been raised, to make clear that they were not seeking any part of the funds.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113053809 |title=Dickens Fund. |newspaper=[[The Queensland Times]] |date=18 January 1912 |accessdate=23 August 2014 |page=6 Edition: DAILY |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
+Author [[Lucinda Hawksley]], a descendant of the elder Charles Dickens, has written that "the girls' begging letter" caused embarrassment for their uncle, London barrister [[Henry Fielding Dickens]],<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/> while the daughters of another uncle, [[Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens]], gave an interview to a newspaper in Australia, where they had been raised, to make clear that they were not seeking any part of the funds.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113053809 |title=Dickens Fund. |newspaper=[[The Queensland Times]] |date=18 January 1912 |access-date=23 August 2014 |page=6 Edition: DAILY |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
-Dickens' biographer [[Claire Tomalin]] writes Charles Walter, only son of Dickens Junior, had been "disowned" by the family for marrying Ella Dare, a barmaid.<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/> Sydney Margaret went on to marry architect [[Thomas Bostock Whinney]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/whinneym |title=Whinney, Margaret [Dickens] |work=Dictionary of Art Historians |accessdate=2014-08-22}}</ref> Ethel died in 1936 of an overdose of [[phenobarbital]], after being found unconscious in her flat in [[Chelsea, London]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z38tAAAAIBAJ&pg=1648%2C844896 |title=Ethel Kate Dickens Is Victim of Drug |work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Montreal Gazette]] |date=1936-06-06 |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
+Dickens's biographer [[Claire Tomalin]] said Charles Walter, only son of Dickens Jr., had been disowned by the family for marrying Ella Dare, a barmaid.<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/> Sydney Margaret went on to marry architect [[Thomas Bostock Whinney]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/whinneym |title=Whinney, Margaret [Dickens] |work=Dictionary of Art Historians |access-date=2014-08-22 |archive-date=6 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132609/http://arthistorians.info/whinneym |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ethel died in 1936 of an overdose of [[phenobarbital]] at her flat in [[Chelsea, London]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z38tAAAAIBAJ&pg=1648%2C844896 |title=Ethel Kate Dickens Is Victim of Drug |work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Montreal Gazette]] |date=1936-06-06 |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
 ==Bibliography==
-Dickens Junior's publications include:
+Dickens's publications include:
 *1879 – ''The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches''.<ref>{{LoC catalog record|17016795|The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches|long=yes}}</ref>
 *1879 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook''.<ref>{{LoC catalog record|03011875|Dickens's Dictionary of London|long=yes}}</ref>
-*1879 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01012675787&indx=6&recIds=BLL01012675787&recIdxs=5&elementId=5&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1408716371831&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=charles%20dickens%201837%201896&vid=BLVU1 |title=Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore |work=Main catalogue entry |publisher=[[British Library]] |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref><ref>{{LoC catalog record|03015571|Dickens's dictionary of the Thames|long=yes}}</ref>
+*1879 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01012675787&indx=6&recIds=BLL01012675787&recIdxs=5&elementId=5&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1408716371831&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=charles%20dickens%201837%201896&vid=BLVU1 |title=Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore |work=Main catalogue entry |publisher=[[British Library]] |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref><ref>{{LoC catalog record|03015571|Dickens's dictionary of the Thames|long=yes}}</ref>
 *1881 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of Days''.<ref>{{LoC catalog record|03011875|Dickens's dictionary of days, being an every-day record of 1880. With calendar of useful information for 1881.|long=yes}}</ref>
-*1882 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dickens|first1=Charles Jr. |url=https://archive.org/details/dickensdictiona00dickgoog |title=Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |year=1882 |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
+*1882 – ''Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dickens|first1=Charles Jr. |url=https://archive.org/details/dickensdictiona00dickgoog |title=Dickens's Dictionary of Paris: An Unconventional Handbook |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |year=1882 |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
-*1884 – ''A Dictionary of the University of Cambridge''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01009573358&indx=2&recIds=BLL01009573358&recIdxs=1&elementId=1&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1408716371831&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=charles%20dickens%201837%201896&vid=BLVU1 |title=A dictionary of the university of Cambridge |work=Main catalogue entry |publisher=[[British Library]] |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
+*1884 – ''A Dictionary of the University of Cambridge''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01009573358&indx=2&recIds=BLL01009573358&recIdxs=1&elementId=1&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1408716371831&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl%28488279563UI0%29=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=charles%20dickens%201837%201896&vid=BLVU1 |title=A dictionary of the university of Cambridge |work=Main catalogue entry |publisher=[[British Library]] |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
-*1884 – ''A Dictionary of the University of Oxford''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dickens|first1=Charles Jr. |url=https://archive.org/details/dickenssdictiona00dickrich |title=A Dictionary of the University of Oxford |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |year=1885 |accessdate=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
+*1884 – ''A Dictionary of the University of Oxford''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dickens|first1=Charles Jr. |url=https://archive.org/details/dickenssdictiona00dickrich |title=A Dictionary of the University of Oxford |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |year=1885 |access-date=2014-08-22 }}</ref>
-He also wrote the introductions to many posthumous reprints of his father's books, such as ''[[Barnaby Rudge]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|04015297|Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens; a reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction, biogaphical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> ''[[Oliver Twist]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|15020308|Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. A reprint of the first ed., with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> ''[[Bleak House]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|04015298|Bleak house, by Charles Dickens; with forty illustrations by Phiz and facsimile of wrapper to first part; a reprint of the edition corrected by the author in 1869, with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> and ''[[Little Dorrit]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|12023256|Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations by Phiz. A reprint of the first ed. with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens, the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> providing biographical and bibliographical insights. His ''Reminiscences of My Father'' was published posthumously in 1934.<ref>{{cite book |title=Personal reminiscences of Charles Dickens |work=Catalogue entry |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |oclc = 34707966}}</ref>
+He also wrote the introductions to many posthumous reprints of his father's books, such as ''[[Barnaby Rudge]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|04015297|Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens; a reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> ''[[Oliver Twist]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|15020308|Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. A reprint of the first ed., with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> ''[[Bleak House]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|04015298|Bleak house, by Charles Dickens; with forty illustrations by Phiz and facsimile of wrapper to first part; a reprint of the edition corrected by the author in 1869, with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> and ''[[Little Dorrit]]'',<ref>{{LoC catalog record|12023256|Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations by Phiz. A reprint of the first ed. with an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens, the younger.|long=yes}}</ref> providing biographical and bibliographical insights. His ''Reminiscences of My Father'' was published posthumously in 1934.<ref>{{cite book |title=Personal reminiscences of Charles Dickens |work=Catalogue entry |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |oclc = 34707966}}</ref>
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