In two of Dickens' other major works debtors were jailed: David Copperfield, in which Wilkins Micawber was sent to the King's Bench Prison; and The Pickwick Papers, in which Mr Pickwick was ...

Charles Dickens first visited the United States and Canada for six months in 1842, arriving in New York City with his first wife Catherine on January 31, 1842. He was only 30 years old, but had ...