Been reading dickens for 40 years. My favorite. My name here at FR is from a dickens novel. This the only novel I have yet to read by CD. Interesting article. Thanks for posting
Martin Chuzzlewit, by name.
It should also be noted that other names that have come into common usage are also from Dickens: Uriah Heep, "Scrooge," Pecksniff, Artful Dodger ...
I have a complete collection of Dickens' works, and I make it a point to re-read at least one of them every year.
Best opening line to a novel ever.
My mother’s prized possession was a red leather bound set of Dickens my father bought her when they lived in England in the 1950s. They were old when Daddy bought them for her.