CHARLES DICKENS

BY
G. K. CHESTERTON
AND
F. G. KITTON
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW
1903
s PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
[Charles Dickens]	[Frontispiece]
[The Corn Exchange, Rochester High Street]	[1]
[“Boz” (Charles Dickens). From a Drawing by S. Laurence]	[2]
[The Birthplace of Dickens: No. 387, Commercial Road, Landport, Portsea]	[3]
[No. 15, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn]	[4]
[The “Leather Bottle,” Cobham]	[5]
[Charles Dickens in 1839 (from the Picture by Daniel Maclise, R.A.)]	[7]
[The Grave of Little Nell]	[8]
[The Old Curiosity Shop]	[9]
[Charles Dickens reading “The Chimes” to his Friends at 58, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Monday, the 2nd of December, 1844]	[10]
[Charles Dickens, his Wife, and her Sister (from a Pencil Drawing by Daniel Maclise, R.A., in 1843)]	[11]
[Dotheboys Hall, 1841]	[12]
[Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadil in “Every Man in his Humour”]	[12]
[A Portrait of Charles Dickens in 1842. By Count D’Orsay]	[13]
[Charles Dickens in 1851]	[14]
[Dickens’s Favourite Raven]	[15]
[Charles Dickens in 1855 (from the Painting by Ary Scheffer)]	[16]
[Tavistock House, Tavistock Square]	[17]
[Eastgate House, Rochester (the Original of the Nuns’ House in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”)]	[18]
[Charles Dickens in 1844]	[19]
[Charles Dickens at work]	[20]
[No. 1, Devonshire Terrace (Dickens’s Residence from 1839 to 1850)]	[22]
[Charles Dickens in 1859 (after the Painting by W. P. Frith, A.R.A.)]	[23]
[Charles Dickens giving a Reading, 1861]	[24]
[Charles Dickens driving with Members of his Family]	[25]
[Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester, Kent]	[26]
[Mrs. Charles Dickens]	[27]
[Restoration House (the “Satis House” of “Great Expectations”)]	[28]
[The Bull Hotel, Rochester]	[28]
[A Portrait of Charles Dickens about the Age of 50]	[29]
[Charles Dickens, circa 1864]	[30]
[Charles Dickens, circa 1864]	[31]
[A Portion of Dickens’s MS. taken from “The Christmas Carol”]	[32]
[Charles Dickens (from a Photograph)]	[33]
[The Gatehouse, Rochester]	[34]
[The House of the Six Poor Travellers at Rochester]	[35]
[Charles Dickens in 1861]	[37]
[The Grave of Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey (from a Water-colour Drawing by S. Luke Fildes, R.A.)]	[38]