Charles Dickens Jr. Charles Dickens Jr. Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine "All the Year Round", and a successful writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books "Dickens's Dictionary of London" and "Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames". Charles Dickens Jr. was born at Furnival's Inn in Holborn, London, the first child of Charles Dickens and his then-wife Catherine Hogarth. He was called 'Charley' by family and friends. In
Hogarth Press respectively. The Hogarth Press produced a number of publication series that were affordable as well as being attractively bound and printed, and usually commissioned from well known authors. These include the initial "Hogarth Essays" in three series 1924–1947 (36 titles), "Hogarth Lectures on Literature" (2 series 1927–1951), "Merttens Lectures on War and Peace" (8 titles 1927–1936), "Hogarth Living Poets" (29 titles 1928–1937), "Day to Day Pamphlets" (1930–1939), "Hogarth Letters" (12 titles 1931–1933) and "World-Makers and World-Shakers" (4 titles 1937). The "Essays" were the first series produced by the press and include works by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Gertrude Stein.