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
Jim Powell (British novelist) Jim Powell (British novelist) Jim Powell (born 17 May 1949 in London) is a British novelist, and is a direct descendant of the 19th-century novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Jim Powell was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he has a master's degree in history. He stood as a candidate for the Conservative Party against Geoffrey Robinson in the Coventry North-West constituency in the British General Election of 1987. Jim Powell's first novel, "The Breaking of Eggs", was published in 2010. It deals with the impact of fascism and communism on 20th-century Europe. The novel was longlisted for