...A lecturer, speaker, English Tutor and writer...If it helps this is the sort of thing that appears in my lecture publicity...'Awarded a doctorate from the University of Exeter for his work on Charles Dickens, Keith Hooper regularly speaks on Victorian literature. His lectures, available on YouTube, have attracted thousands of viewers. His work has also appeared in the international journal The Dickensian. A qualified teacher, he currently works as an English tutor.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 7A Timeline of Charles Dickens’s Life 8Introduction 121 Lady of John Dickens Esq. a Son 172 The Workhouse, the Theatre, and Royalty 243 The Happy Dream of Childhood 294 The Reader, the Watcher, and the Learner 395 Disturbing Shadows of Debt and Despair 466 The Prisoner and the Pupil 557 I Begin Life on My Account 648 The Actor, the Reporter, and the Writer 739 Sketches By Boz and Sparks on Sunday 9110 Charitable Angels and the Invisible World of Poverty 10111 Oliver Twist: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Female Angels 11112 Nicholas Nickleby: Charitable and Female Angels 12613 The Old Curiosity Shop and the Ticking of the Clock 13414 Death, the Resurrection, and Child Angels 14015 A Christmas Carol 15016 The Chimes 16217 The Simple Faith of Dickens 17018 The Private and Public Charity of Dickens 17919 The Battle of Life 18820 Telescopic Philanthropy and Original Sin 19821 Law, Grace, and Feet of Clay 20722 The Triumph of His Latter Years 217The End 231Select Bibliography 239

“The complexity of Dickens’s life and character never diminished his Christian charity and advocacy of the poor. Hooper’s new biography reveals a different Dickens, one who wrote “expressly for his children” The Life of our Lord. At the heart of this is a man who loved Jesus, acknowledging that there was none so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for people who did wrong. Hooper gives us a Dickens who, in the midst of his complex and divided life struggled to translate his faith into practical social good.”

...A lecturer, speaker, English Tutor and writer...If it helps this is the sort of thing that appears in my lecture publicity...'Awarded a doctorate from the University of Exeter for his work on Charles Dickens, Keith Hooper regularly speaks on Victorian literature. His lectures, available on YouTube, have attracted thousands of viewers. His work has also appeared in the international journal The Dickensian. A qualified teacher, he currently works as an English tutor.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 7A Timeline of Charles Dickens’s Life 8Introduction 121 Lady of John Dickens Esq. a Son 172 The Workhouse, the Theatre, and Royalty 243 The Happy Dream of Childhood 294 The Reader, the Watcher, and the Learner 395 Disturbing Shadows of Debt and Despair 466 The Prisoner and the Pupil 557 I Begin Life on My Account 648 The Actor, the Reporter, and the Writer 739 Sketches By Boz and Sparks on Sunday 9110 Charitable Angels and the Invisible World of Poverty 10111 Oliver Twist: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Female Angels 11112 Nicholas Nickleby: Charitable and Female Angels 12613 The Old Curiosity Shop and the Ticking of the Clock 13414 Death, the Resurrection, and Child Angels 14015 A Christmas Carol 15016 The Chimes 16217 The Simple Faith of Dickens 17018 The Private and Public Charity of Dickens 17919 The Battle of Life 18820 Telescopic Philanthropy and Original Sin 19821 Law, Grace, and Feet of Clay 20722 The Triumph of His Latter Years 217The End 231Select Bibliography 239

“The complexity of Dickens’s life and character never diminished his Christian charity and advocacy of the poor. Hooper’s new biography reveals a different Dickens, one who wrote “expressly for his children” The Life of our Lord. At the heart of this is a man who loved Jesus, acknowledging that there was none so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for people who did wrong. Hooper gives us a Dickens who, in the midst of his complex and divided life struggled to translate his faith into practical social good.”

...A lecturer, speaker, English Tutor and writer...If it helps this is the sort of thing that appears in my lecture publicity...'Awarded a doctorate from the University of Exeter for his work on Charles Dickens, Keith Hooper regularly speaks on Victorian literature. His lectures, available on YouTube, have attracted thousands of viewers. His work has also appeared in the international journal The Dickensian. A qualified teacher, he currently works as an English tutor.

• ContentsAcknowledgments 7A Timeline of Charles Dickens’s Life 8Introduction 121 Lady of John Dickens Esq. a Son 172 The Workhouse, the Theatre, and Royalty 243 The Happy Dream of Childhood 294 The Reader, the Watcher, and the Learner 395 Disturbing Shadows of Debt and Despair 466 The Prisoner and the Pupil 557 I Begin Life on My Account 648 The Actor, the Reporter, and the Writer 739 Sketches By Boz and Sparks on Sunday 9110 Charitable Angels and the Invisible World of Poverty 10111 Oliver Twist: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Female Angels 11112 Nicholas Nickleby: Charitable and Female Angels 12613 The Old Curiosity Shop and the Ticking of the Clock 13414 Death, the Resurrection, and Child Angels 14015 A Christmas Carol 15016 The Chimes 16217 The Simple Faith of Dickens 17018 The Private and Public Charity of Dickens 17919 The Battle of Life 18820 Telescopic Philanthropy and Original Sin 19821 Law, Grace, and Feet of Clay 20722 The Triumph of His Latter Years 217The End 231Select Bibliography 239

“The complexity of Dickens’s life and character never diminished his Christian charity and advocacy of the poor. Hooper’s new biography reveals a different Dickens, one who wrote “expressly for his children” The Life of our Lord. At the heart of this is a man who loved Jesus, acknowledging that there was none so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for people who did wrong. Hooper gives us a Dickens who, in the midst of his complex and divided life struggled to translate his faith into practical social good.”