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
Catherine Gore of the Day" (1830), "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb" (1841), and "The Banker's Wife" (1843). She wrote articles in "Bentley's Miscellany" under the pseudonym "Albany Poyntz". She also wrote for the stage, and composed music. Gore's 1861 obituary in "The Times" concluded that Gore was "the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age." Catherine Gore Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861) was a prolific English novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant of Retford. She is among the best known of the silver fork