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Generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens achieved unprecedented fame in his own lifetime for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction. He also wrote hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, and campaigned for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms. Virginia Woolf said of Dickens that he created “characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks.”
