For ready reference to Dickens' works there is a _Dickens
Dictionary_, giving the names of all characters and places in
the novels, by G.A. Pierce, and another similar work by A.J.
Philip. Mary Williams has also prepared a _Dickens
Concordance_.
Forster's _Life of Charles Dickens_, in three volumes, is the
standard work, as Forster was closely connected with the
novelist from the time he made his hit with _Pickwick_. George
Gissing, the novelist, made an abridgment of Forster's _Life_
in one volume, which is well done. Scores of shorter lives and
sketches have been written. Among the best of these are Dr.
A.W. Ward's _Charles Dickens_ in the English Men of Letters
series; Taine's chapter on Dickens in his _History of English
Literature_; Sir Leslie Stephen's article in the _Dictionary
of National Biography_; Mrs. Oliphant's _The Victorian Age in
English Literature_; F.G. Kitton's _Charles Dickens: His Life,
Writings and Personality_. _The Letters_, edited by Miss
Hogarth and Mary Dickens, are valuable for the light they
throw on the novelist's character and work.
In reminiscence of Dickens, the best books are Mary Dickens'
_My Father as I Recall Him_; J.T. Fields' _In and Out of Doors
With Charles Dickens_ and G. Dolby's _Charles Dickens as I
Knew Him_, the last devoted to the famous reading tours.
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