[2] As a young man, Dickens showed skills that could have led to a career in journalism but his father encouraged him to go into business.

[7] At this time he also bought at auction Gads Hill Place, his father's Kent home, but he was forced to give it up in 1879.

[8][9] Charles Dickens Jr. died of heart disease, at his home in Fulham, London, on 20 July 1896, aged 59.

[11] In 1910 their situation was so difficult that Ethel Dickens wrote to the Lord Chief Justice Richard Alverstone to seek assistance.

[12] In the letter, which was also published in The Daily Telegraph, she explained that her sisters were "barely making a living" as secretaries and babysitters and that her doctor told her to take six months' rest due to overwork.

[12] As the centenary of their grandfather's birth approached, the reduced circumstances of Charles Jr.'s daughters led to a public fundraising appeal.

[13] On 7 January 1912 a gala performance in which "leading actors and actresses" appeared as Dickens's characters at the London Coliseum raised £2500, while a separate appeal by The Daily Telegraph added an additional £3882.

[18] Dickens's publications include: He also wrote the introductions to many posthumous reprints of his father's books, such as Barnaby Rudge,[27] Oliver Twist,[28] Bleak House,[29] and Little Dorrit,[30] providing biographical and bibliographical insights.

The next 1880 edition and further were slightly retitled to Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, From Its Source to the Nore: An Unconventional Handbook.