Charles Dickens
My aim is to give some account of Charles Dickens’； personality, to think of him as a man rather than a writer. For the facts of his life I have to depend largely on Forster’；s biography, {199} which is doubtless trustworthy, but the personality of the author does not tend to make it attractive. In this way the little book by Miss M. Dickens is valuable: it gives in simple and touching words an impression of the affection that Dickens inspired.
She writes:—；"No man was so inclined naturally to derive his happiness from home affairs. He was full of the kind of interest in a house which is commonly confined to women, and his care of and for us as wee children did most certainly ‘；pass the love of women.’； His was a tender and most affectionate nature."
When he "was arranging and rehearsing his readings from Dombey, the death of ‘；little Paul’； caused him such real anguish, that he told us he could only master his inte

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