2-791-497 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Charles Dickens, 1844. British author Dickens: 'It was in this the heyday of his rising reputation that we had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Dickens for the first time. His appearance is prepossessing; his figure small, but well made: his look intelligent, and his eyes peculiarly expressive. He seemed scanning you, not obtrusively, but unobservedly, from head to foot'. From "Pictorial Times", April 1844.