Charles Dickens as a Reader

by Charles Kent

Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet, biographer, and journalist, born in London. After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845-70), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature. He edited Weekly Register, a Roman Catholic paper (1874-81). A personal friend of Charles Dickens, he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickens's editorship and to other periodicals. Several volumes of poems, published previously in the forties, fifties, and sixties, provided the materials for his collected Poems (1870).

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

For hardcore Dickens fans only! Written in prose I can only describe as florid, this book is dense as it gets, with occasional great descriptions of
Dickens chewing the scenery and fainting on a sofa after a particularly intense performance of Bill Sykes, Fagin and Nancy.