[5] During the 1840s, Evans lived at 7 Church Row, Stoke Newington, where both W. M. Thackeray and Charles Dickens visited.

[12] The Daily News launch of 1846, with Dickens as editor, proved however a costly failure that Evans regretted for decades.

[13] In the 1850s, Bradbury & Evans published Household Words, the weekly edited by Charles Dickens.

[14] Two new publications resulted, All the Year Round run by Dickens in competition with Once a Week, which was edited successfully by Samuel Lucas.

[15][16] Also involved in the contractual basis of Household Words were John Forster and William Henry Wills.

[21] Frederick was nicknamed "Pater", is described as "jovial, Pickwickian", and was taken by contemporaries as the typical Victorian paterfamilias.