... 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 ... an installment just when it was due. Haste did not prevent his loosely strung and intricately plotted books from being the most popular novels of his day. When he visited America in 1842, he was received with ovations but awakened some displeasure by his remarks on...

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... 400 copies; the last run sold 40,000 copies. Sam Weller's sayings were catchwords in the streets and the household wherever the English language was spoken. All of Dickens's future novels would appear in serial installments, setting a new Victorian trend in publishing. Dickens used his first payment of 29 shillings from The Pickwick Papers to marry Catherine Hogarth, with whom ... installments. The completion of "Barnaby Rudge," in 1841, also completed "Master Humphrey's Clock.". In January, 1842, he set out for America. In this country he was accorded a reception greater than Americans...

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