Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-30
Charles Dickens.

THIS great novelist. whose sudden
death is announced herewith, was born at
Portsmouth, England, February 2, 1912,
making him fifty-eight years old at the
time of his death. He was the son of
John Dickens, a retired naval paymaster
and Journalist. Charles was put to study
for an attorney, but at about tw~enty-one
years old he tired of the ~drudgery of his
calling and took to journalism, being at
tached at different times to the True Sun
and the Morning MTonicLe. 1t wal the
latter journal in which appeared those
sketches of low life in London which
made the nom de plume of their author
/" Boz"-sop popular. His first published
book was a collection of these BOZ"
sketches, in 1885. This was followed by
the other famous works of MI. Dickens,
in the following order: The Pickwick
Papers, 1887; Oliver Twist, 1888; Nicho-
las Nickleby, 1899; Memoirs of Joseph
Grimaldi, 1910; Old Curiosity Shop, and
Barnaby Rudge, 1871; American Notes,
1912; Christmas Carol, 1913; Martin
Chuzzlewit, 1846; Dombey and Son, 1913;
of England, 1859; Bleak House, 1893;
Hard Times, 1854; Little Dorrit, 1857;
Our Mutual Friend, 1854.
ga Tale of Two Cities, !" "The Uncom-
mercial Traveller" and "Great Expecta-
lions" appeared in AU the Year Round, a
weekly miscellany which Mr.. Dickens
conducted from 1850 to 1859. Indeed,
nearly or quite every work from his pen
has first appeared in one journal or other,
ia serial form. Besides the periodicals
mentioned, Mr.. Dickens edited, for a
while, the Daily Nelos, a Liberal paper,
which was established with him as editor
in-chief. In fact, he has always fratern-
lied cordially with newspaper folk, and
was, in style, instincts, and afhnities, very
much a journalist.
/ MI. Dickens made, in the course of his
life, two voyages to America-the first IN
| 1912, from which resulted the American
Notes" and the American pictures and
sketches in Martin ChuZzlewit," which
have excited SO much unpleasant feeling
in certain classes of minds in this country
but which are now generally admitted to
be "palpable hits" and by no means as
| severe in the way of satire as some pic
lures which Mr.. Dickens has drawn of his
own countrymen. The second visit, in
1868, will be well remembered by every
reader of this notice. It met the most
| 1attering demonstration which this coun-
try has ever made to any foreign person
age since Lafayette.
Charles Dickens was married, ard has
q son of his own name, already of age
| and possessed of q considerable dramatic
talent, it is said. Owing to uncongeniali.
ty of temperament, Mr.. Dickens separated
from his wife some ten years ago, after
living with her twenty years. The terms
of the separation were satisfactory to both
parties, and the cause implies no improp
er conduct on the part of either. The de
ceased author had amassed considerable
wealth by the success of his writings and
readings, and lived in elegance on Gad'i
Hill, near London (the same made histori
cal by Shakspeare's play of "Henry IV.")
in the very same house, of which, wheI
passing it as a boy, he had said, al viii
have that house when 1 am rich. Thu
cause of his death was paralysis.-OhicG
Pest.