'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had
heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because,
until that moment, I had only known him as one of my ancestors.' -
Lucinda Hawksley Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child
must have been astonished at his rise from being, in his own words,
'a little labouring hind' to becoming one of the most famous and
adored men in the world. Dickens is often described as the first
'modern' author, by which it is meant that he went on book tours
and engaged with his public in a manner more considered a
twentieth- -century phenomenon. Through sheer force of will he
propelled himself out of a rather depressing existence into the
circle of intelligent, radical, questioning friends who feature in
this book. Guests at his parties could expect to meet actors,
artists, radical politicians, prison reformers, philanthropists and
musicians, as well as writers. Dickens's closest literary friends
included Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace
Thackeray and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He also admired and surrounded
himself with artists, including two of his oldest friends, Daniel
Maclise and Augustus Egg, the celebrity painters Clarkson Frederick
Stanfield, William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais, and many
of his illustrators: Hablot Knight Browne (aka Phiz), George
Cruikshank, and the father and son Frank and Marcus Stone. He
worked tirelessly with fellow social reformers including Angela
Burdett- - Coutts, Thomas Noon Talfourd and Elizabeth Jesser Reid.
Beautifully illustrated with images from the Collection of the
National Portrait Gallery, this book explores the man behind the
novels and the lives of those around him.
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