... . In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who was to bear him 10 children; the marriage, however, was never happy. Dickens had a tender regard for Catherine's sister Mary Hogarth, who died young, and a lifelong friendship with another sister, Georgina Hogarth. Maturity The early-won fame never deserted Dickens. ... His readers were eager and ever more numerous, and Dickens worked vigorously for them, producing novels that appeared first in monthly installments and then were made into books. Oliver Twist (in book form, 1838) was followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1839) and by two works ... at ...

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... Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith, and Henry Fielding. At this time, Dickens began submitting "penny-a-line" material (whereby writers were paid per line for their work) to the British Press. Such submissions largely took the form of factual information about fires, accidents, and police reports. Dickens took ... Dickens distinguished himself; out of eighty or ninety he was acknowledged as the best. When the Morning Chronicle expanded, Dickens jumped at the chance for a staff position. He later commented to his biographer John Forster that he "went at it with a determination to overcome a...

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