Donald Hawes is a visiting lecturer in English at the Open University, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Westminster. He has edited works by Dickens and Thackeray for Penguin Classics, Oxford Worlds Classics and the Everyman Library.

'Not only informative but charming Hawes enthusiasm for Dickens' characters is contagious. - Dickens Quarterly'A well-produced, useful and affordable reference book, in which all Dickens lovers will find something new and stimulating.' - The Dickensian

• List of figures , Foreword by David Parker, Introduction to the 2002 edition, Acknowledgements, Note on texts and references, Abbreviations of Dickens’s works cited, List of characters by work, Introduction, who’s who in dickens, Bibliography

Donald Hawes is a visiting lecturer in English at the Open University, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Westminster. He has edited works by Dickens and Thackeray for Penguin Classics, Oxford Worlds Classics and the Everyman Library.

'Not only informative but charming Hawes enthusiasm for Dickens' characters is contagious. - Dickens Quarterly'A well-produced, useful and affordable reference book, in which all Dickens lovers will find something new and stimulating.' - The Dickensian

• List of figures , Foreword by David Parker, Introduction to the 2002 edition, Acknowledgements, Note on texts and references, Abbreviations of Dickens’s works cited, List of characters by work, Introduction, who’s who in dickens, Bibliography