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'''Charles Dickens''' was a [[19th century]] [[British]] writer of significant public notability, who was known to have died in [[1870]]. Even relatively uneducated servants like [[Gwyneth]] referred to him as a "the great man". In the last years of his life he entered a period of melancholy, seemingly brought on by emotional estrangement from his family, as well as probable writer's block.
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'''Charles John Huffham Dickens''' ([[1812]]-[[1870]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')) was a famous [[19th century]] [[British]] [[author]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') He was often said to be the greatest [[English]] novelist of the [[Victorian era]], and his works remained popular at the turn of the [[21st century]] and well into the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'') [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]] referred to him as "the great man". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
 
He wrote fifteen novels and five novellas, as well as hundreds of short stories and articles, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'') along with essays, poetry and plays. He used many of his novels to examine great social causes, initially inspired by his own childhood experiences. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')
 
In the last years of his life, he entered a period of melancholy, seemingly brought on by emotional estrangement from his family. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
From the age of 12, Charles Dickens worked ten hours a day in a boot-blacking factory after [[Charles Dickens's father|his father]] was imprisoned for debt. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')
 
=== Writing career ===
As a young man, Dickens became a journalist and then began to establish himself as an author with ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''. He became a great campaigner against poverty and social injustice, championing children, the poor and the oppressed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')
 
Dickens married [[Kate Dickens|Catherine Hogarth]] in [[1836]], and they had ten children. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')
 
By [[1845]], ''The Pickwick Papers'', was notorious for the accusation that he had stolen the idea for a character from his illustrator. He believed in the reality of [[spontaneous human combustion]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'') and incorporated it into his novel ''[[Bleak House]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'')
 
In [[December]] of 1845, after numerous delays, he was close to publishing the first edition of his newspaper, the ''[[Daily News (The Death of Art)|Daily News]]'', from its [[London]] offices, but events on the [[18 December|18th]] would unsettle him and drive him to leave the city. His writing after that point became colder and bleaker.
 
[[Montague (The Death of Art)|Montague]], an irate [[toy]]maker, confronted Charles Dickens about his recent [[Christmas]] book ''[[The Cricket on the Hearth]]'', in the belief that Dickens was prying into his history. Intending to visit the man later to explain that the book's character was not based on him, Dickens turned to the proofs for his paper, only to be shocked by an unnerving poem about living [[doll]]s that wasn't there when he looked a second time. He later travelled toward the [[Billingsgate]] address of Montague's shop, only to flee in terror from dolls crawling towards him. Twenty years later, he told his friend [[Wilkie Collins]] part of the story and the two went to see Montague's shop, only to find it had burned down years ago. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'')
 
=== Separation and later years ===
Dickens separated from Kate in [[1858]], by which time he was involved with an actress, [[Ellen Ternan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'') Dickens himself commented he had been "rather... well, let's just say, clumsy, with family matters". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')


==Biography==
With the end of his marriage, Dickens embarked on a long series of tours across [[Britain]] and [[America]], on which he would read from his most popular works to packed houses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|The Time Travellers' Almanac]]'')
By [[1845]], Dickens was married to a woman named Kate with which he had several children. An earlier work ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' was notorious for the accusation that he had stolen the idea for a character from his illustrator. He believed in the power of [[spontaneous human combustion]] ([[NA]]: ''[[The Death of Art]]'') which he would incorporate into his novel ''[[Bleak House]]''. ([[NA]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire]]'')


In [[December]] of 1845, after numerous delays, he was close to publishing the first edition of his newspaper, the ''[[Daily News]]'', from its [[London]] offices but events on the [[18th December|18th]] would unsettle him and drive him to leave the city. His writing after that point became colder and bleaker.
In [[1866]], Dickens encountered the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard]] at the [[Reform Club]] while they were looking for [[Pieter Montmarche]]. Dickens got into a row with the Doctor over an error in ''[[Great Expectations]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]'')


[[Montague]], an irate toymaker, confronted Charles Dickens about his recent [[Christmas]] book ''[[The Cricket on the Hearth]]'' in the belief that Dickens was prying into his history. Intending to visit the man later to explain that the character in the book was not based on him, he turned to the proofs for his paper only to be shocked by an unnerving poem about living dolls that wasn't there when he looked a second time. He later travelled toward the Billingsgate address of Montague's shop only to flee in terror from dolls crawling towards him.
In [[1869]], he was on a gruelling tour of public performances of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', a work he had written many years earlier. During this period, he despaired of his life being merely a series of recitations of his past successes.


Twenty years later, he told his friend [[Wilkie Collins]] part of the story and the two went to see Montague's shop only to find it had burned down years ago. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Death of Art]]'')
In the [[Taliesin Lodge]] in [[Cardiff]], on [[24 December]], his reading of ''A Christmas Carol'' was interrupted when the [[Gelth]]-inhabited corpse of [[Peace (The Unquiet Dead)|Mrs Peace]] had blue smoke coming from her. He accused the [[Ninth Doctor]] of creating a light show. The Doctor, seeing his [[companion]], [[Rose Tyler]], being taken by the [[Sneed and Company]] hearse, followed after them with Dickens in Dickens' coach. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') According to a couple of accounts, shortly prior, Dickens had been outside while the Doctor and Rose entered the Lodge, enabling the creation of a [[photograph]] to be taken of Dickens with the duo in the background; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre]]'', ''[[Rose sighting confirmed (short story)|Rose sighting confirmed]]'') however, according to another account, the photograph had been taken in a closer proximity to the Doctor and Rose, and without having Dickens be the subject of said photograph. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mickey's Blog (short story)|Mickey's Blog]]'')


When the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] met Dickens on [[Christmas]] [[1869]] in [[Cardiff]], he was on a grueling tour of public performances of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', a work he had written many years earlier. During this period, he despaired of his life being merely a series of recitations of his past successes.
Even after seeing more reanimated corpses in the funeral parlour upon saving Rose, Dickens clashed with the Doctor, as he firmly believed in the rational world. Dickens was not prepared to entertain the more fantastical elements of life. The Doctor, however, saw that things [[human]]s considered "supernatural" were in fact just extra-terrestrial reality. Thus the Doctor was open to participating in a [[séance]] as a way of communicating with the Gelth, while Dickens viewed such things as the antithesis of rationality.


He initially mistook the Doctor as the person who had ruined his performance with an impromptu "lantern show", something that was in fact the manifestation of a [[Gelth]]. He found it improbable that the Doctor was a Doctor because his clothing which, according to Dickens, suggested the Doctor was a [[navvy]]. Meanwhile, the Doctor revealed himself as major fan of Dickens' work, although he had issues with "the American bit" in ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]''. The Doctor also remarked that the death of Dickens' character, [[Little Nell]], "cracked [him] up".
The Gelth began breaching through, thanks to the servant girl, [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]], but instead of finding temporary bodies until the Doctor could find something permanent, "a few billion" came through, and cornered the Doctor and Rose. Dickens opened the gas throughout the funeral parlour, sucking the Gelth out of the corpses and back into the gas. He told the Doctor to do the same. Though not able to send them back where they came from, Gwyneth was able to hold the Gelth in the building by setting the parlour alight, saving the world.


Dickens clashed with the Doctor, as he firmly believed in the rational world. Dickens was not prepared to entertain the more fantastical elements of life. The Doctor, however, saw that things [[human]]s considered "supernatural" were in fact just extra-terrestrial reality. Thus the Doctor was open to participating in a séance as a way of communicating with the [[Gelth]], while Dickens viewed such things as the antithesis of rationality. By the end of the ordeal, Dickens emerged with a belief that he had only just begun to learn about the universe. With his re-invigorated sense of wonder, he resolved to tell the tale of the Gelth affair in the form of a the ending to his novel ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]''. The Doctor knew he would not live long enough to do so, but knew that when he did die, he did so a happier man. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'')
By the end of the ordeal, Dickens emerged with a belief that he had only just begun to learn about the universe. With his re-invigorated sense of wonder, he resolved to tell the tale of the Gelth affair in the form of the ending to his novel ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]''.


==Works==
The Doctor knew he would not live long enough to do so, but knew that when he did die, he did so a happier man. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
Dickens was known to be the author of several works: "[[The Signal-Man]]", ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[Great Expectations]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'', ''[[Bleak House]]'', ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'', and ''The Old Curosity Shop'', which contained the character [[Little Nell]].


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=== Legacy ===
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The [[Ninth Doctor]] was a massive fan of Dickens, considering him a genius. The Doctor told Dickens that his books lasted "forever". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
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The photograph of Dickens taken in [[1869]] lasted to the [[21st century]], where it was in the possession of [[Dorothy Stokes]] of [[Llandaff House]]; she sent the photograph to [[Mickey Smith|the webmaster]] of [[Who is Doctor Who?]], where he attempted to show it to the [[police]] to prove his innocence regarding ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose sighting confirmed (short story)|Rose sighting confirmed]]'') in [[Rose Tyler]]'s disappearance, ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') however the police refused to take the photograph seriously and didn't believe it was real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose sighting confirmed (short story)|Rose sighting confirmed]]'') According to one account, this photograph didn't feature Dickens. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mickey's Blog (short story)|Mickey's Blog]]'')
 
A [[Charles Dickens Museum]] was in [[London]] by [[2016]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', ''[[The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)|The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did]]'')
 
In the [[2010s]], at [[Coal Hill School]], [[Clara Oswald]] was teaching a lesson about Dickens and his work ''[[David Copperfield]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')
 
=== Other realities ===
[[File:Charles Dickens BBC (TWORS).jpg|thumb|right|Charles Dickens appears on [[BBC Breakfast]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')]]
==== River Song's World ====
In [[River Song's World|a timeline]] where [[River Song]] caused time to collapse when she refused to kill the [[Eleventh Doctor]], Dickens appeared on [[BBC Breakfast]] being interviewed about his "[[A Christmas Carol|new Christmas special]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
 
== Works ==
Dickens was the author of several works: ''[[David Copperfield]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') ''[[The Pickwick Papers]],'' ([[PROSE]]: [[The Death of Art (novel)|''The Death of Art'']]) ''[[The Signal-Man]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[Great Expectations]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'', ''[[Bleak House]]'', ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'', and ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]'', which contained the character [[Little Nell]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')
 
The complete works of Charles Dickens comprised fifteen volumes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crooked Man (audio story)|The Crooked Man]]'')
 
[[A Tale of Two Cities|One work]] by Dickens contained the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The [[Fourth Doctor]] found a page ripped out of this [[book]] in a second-hand [[bookshop]] in [[Eastwold]], in the [[mouth]] of a [[Rance (The Crooked Man)|murder victim]], and suggested someone did not like Dickens. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crooked Man (audio story)|The Crooked Man]]'')
 
== Other references ==
The [[Fourth Doctor]] claimed Charles Dickens's favourite flower was the [[geranium]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The False Guardian (audio story)|The False Guardian]]'')
 
A [[Robot Rose|robot duplicate]] of [[Rose Tyler]] erroneously recalled that the [[Ninth Doctor]] and Rose met Charles Dickens in [[1869]] [[Edinburgh]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Robot Rose (game)|Robot Rose]]'')
 
While a student at [[Coal Hill School]], [[Susan Foreman]] had never even heard of Charles Dickens, despite having a brilliant knowledge of [[William Shakespeare]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)|The Edge of Destruction]]'')
 
== "Charlie Dickens" ==
The Engineer, a member of [[Faction Paradox]], used Dickens's [[biodata]] and books to construct their own version, "Charlie Dickens". The twisted him to be a better fit for the land of Amerika, focussed on writing about "Real men", and believed he wanted to write a book about John Gault. In actual fact, "Dickens" was being used for other purposes, and during a shootout his shadow attacked Gault and turned him into a [[Shift]]. After this, "Dickens" was abandoned by the Faction, and went around Amerika telling people stories about Gault. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Print the Legend (short story)|Print the Legend]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
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* The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] referred to the character of [[Sydney Carton]], implicitly taken from ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by Charles Dickens, in ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''. This is the same book the Fourth Doctor finds in ''[[The Crooked Man (audio story)|The Crooked Man]]''.
* Dickens's real-life great-great-great-grandson [[Harry Lloyd]] is an actor who played [[Jeremy Baines]] and [[Son of Mine]] in the 2007 two-part story ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' and ''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]''.
* Dickens is played by [[Simon Callow]] in ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''. Callow is known for his love of Dickens.
* In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', the [[Seventh Doctor]], stressing the importance of preventing the [[Sontaran]]s' interference in the [[timeline]], cites Charles Dickens as an example of an important person in [[human]] [[history]] whose existence is endangered.
 
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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffham Dickens (1812-1870 (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)) was a famous 19th century British author. (TV: The Unquiet Dead) He was often said to be the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era, and his works remained popular at the turn of the 21st century and well into the future. (PROSE: A History of Humankind) Gwyneth referred to him as "the great man". (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

He wrote fifteen novels and five novellas, as well as hundreds of short stories and articles, (PROSE: A History of Humankind) along with essays, poetry and plays. He used many of his novels to examine great social causes, initially inspired by his own childhood experiences. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

In the last years of his life, he entered a period of melancholy, seemingly brought on by emotional estrangement from his family. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early Life[[edit] | [edit source]]

From the age of 12, Charles Dickens worked ten hours a day in a boot-blacking factory after his father was imprisoned for debt. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

Writing career[[edit] | [edit source]]

As a young man, Dickens became a journalist and then began to establish himself as an author with The Pickwick Papers. He became a great campaigner against poverty and social injustice, championing children, the poor and the oppressed. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and they had ten children. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

By 1845, The Pickwick Papers, was notorious for the accusation that he had stolen the idea for a character from his illustrator. He believed in the reality of spontaneous human combustion (PROSE: The Death of Art) and incorporated it into his novel Bleak House. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

In December of 1845, after numerous delays, he was close to publishing the first edition of his newspaper, the Daily News, from its London offices, but events on the 18th would unsettle him and drive him to leave the city. His writing after that point became colder and bleaker.

Montague, an irate toymaker, confronted Charles Dickens about his recent Christmas book The Cricket on the Hearth, in the belief that Dickens was prying into his history. Intending to visit the man later to explain that the book's character was not based on him, Dickens turned to the proofs for his paper, only to be shocked by an unnerving poem about living dolls that wasn't there when he looked a second time. He later travelled toward the Billingsgate address of Montague's shop, only to flee in terror from dolls crawling towards him. Twenty years later, he told his friend Wilkie Collins part of the story and the two went to see Montague's shop, only to find it had burned down years ago. (PROSE: The Death of Art)

Separation and later years[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dickens separated from Kate in 1858, by which time he was involved with an actress, Ellen Ternan. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac) Dickens himself commented he had been "rather... well, let's just say, clumsy, with family matters". (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

With the end of his marriage, Dickens embarked on a long series of tours across Britain and America, on which he would read from his most popular works to packed houses. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

In 1866, Dickens encountered the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard at the Reform Club while they were looking for Pieter Montmarche. Dickens got into a row with the Doctor over an error in Great Expectations. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't There)

In 1869, he was on a gruelling tour of public performances of A Christmas Carol, a work he had written many years earlier. During this period, he despaired of his life being merely a series of recitations of his past successes.

In the Taliesin Lodge in Cardiff, on 24 December, his reading of A Christmas Carol was interrupted when the Gelth-inhabited corpse of Mrs Peace had blue smoke coming from her. He accused the Ninth Doctor of creating a light show. The Doctor, seeing his companion, Rose Tyler, being taken by the Sneed and Company hearse, followed after them with Dickens in Dickens' coach. (TV: The Unquiet Dead) According to a couple of accounts, shortly prior, Dickens had been outside while the Doctor and Rose entered the Lodge, enabling the creation of a photograph to be taken of Dickens with the duo in the background; (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre, Rose sighting confirmed) however, according to another account, the photograph had been taken in a closer proximity to the Doctor and Rose, and without having Dickens be the subject of said photograph. (PROSE: Mickey's Blog)

Even after seeing more reanimated corpses in the funeral parlour upon saving Rose, Dickens clashed with the Doctor, as he firmly believed in the rational world. Dickens was not prepared to entertain the more fantastical elements of life. The Doctor, however, saw that things humans considered "supernatural" were in fact just extra-terrestrial reality. Thus the Doctor was open to participating in a séance as a way of communicating with the Gelth, while Dickens viewed such things as the antithesis of rationality.

The Gelth began breaching through, thanks to the servant girl, Gwyneth, but instead of finding temporary bodies until the Doctor could find something permanent, "a few billion" came through, and cornered the Doctor and Rose. Dickens opened the gas throughout the funeral parlour, sucking the Gelth out of the corpses and back into the gas. He told the Doctor to do the same. Though not able to send them back where they came from, Gwyneth was able to hold the Gelth in the building by setting the parlour alight, saving the world.

By the end of the ordeal, Dickens emerged with a belief that he had only just begun to learn about the universe. With his re-invigorated sense of wonder, he resolved to tell the tale of the Gelth affair in the form of the ending to his novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The Doctor knew he would not live long enough to do so, but knew that when he did die, he did so a happier man. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving his final work unfinished. (PROSE: The Time Travellers' Almanac)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Ninth Doctor was a massive fan of Dickens, considering him a genius. The Doctor told Dickens that his books lasted "forever". (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

The photograph of Dickens taken in 1869 lasted to the 21st century, where it was in the possession of Dorothy Stokes of Llandaff House; she sent the photograph to the webmaster of Who is Doctor Who?, where he attempted to show it to the police to prove his innocence regarding (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed) in Rose Tyler's disappearance, (TV: Aliens of London) however the police refused to take the photograph seriously and didn't believe it was real. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed) According to one account, this photograph didn't feature Dickens. (PROSE: Mickey's Blog)

A Charles Dickens Museum was in London by 2016. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did)

In the 2010s, at Coal Hill School, Clara Oswald was teaching a lesson about Dickens and his work David Copperfield. (TV: Kill the Moon)

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charles Dickens appears on BBC Breakfast. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

River Song's World[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a timeline where River Song caused time to collapse when she refused to kill the Eleventh Doctor, Dickens appeared on BBC Breakfast being interviewed about his "new Christmas special." (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

Works[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dickens was the author of several works: David Copperfield, (TV: Kill the Moon) The Pickwick Papers, (PROSE: The Death of Art) The Signal-Man, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, Bleak House, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Old Curiosity Shop, which contained the character Little Nell. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)

The complete works of Charles Dickens comprised fifteen volumes. (AUDIO: The Crooked Man)

One work by Dickens contained the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The Fourth Doctor found a page ripped out of this book in a second-hand bookshop in Eastwold, in the mouth of a murder victim, and suggested someone did not like Dickens. (AUDIO: The Crooked Man)

Other references[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fourth Doctor claimed Charles Dickens's favourite flower was the geranium. (AUDIO: The False Guardian)

A robot duplicate of Rose Tyler erroneously recalled that the Ninth Doctor and Rose met Charles Dickens in 1869 Edinburgh. (GAME: Robot Rose)

While a student at Coal Hill School, Susan Foreman had never even heard of Charles Dickens, despite having a brilliant knowledge of William Shakespeare. (PROSE: The Edge of Destruction)

"Charlie Dickens"[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Engineer, a member of Faction Paradox, used Dickens's biodata and books to construct their own version, "Charlie Dickens". The twisted him to be a better fit for the land of Amerika, focussed on writing about "Real men", and believed he wanted to write a book about John Gault. In actual fact, "Dickens" was being used for other purposes, and during a shootout his shadow attacked Gault and turned him into a Shift. After this, "Dickens" was abandoned by the Faction, and went around Amerika telling people stories about Gault. (PROSE: Print the Legend)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

This section needs a cleanup.

Legacy is a valid source.

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