Gloucestershire, where he wrote his beautiful collection of sacred poems
for all the Sundays and Feasts of the year, called the _Christian Year_,
by which his name will always be known and honoured. Keble College in
Oxford was built as a memorial of him, and an acknowledgment of his
teaching.
CHARLES DICKENS.
Born 1812.—Died 1870.—George III.—George IV.—William IV.—Victoria.
This fertile and most popular novelist was educated for the law, and then
became a reporter to the _Morning Chronicle_ newspaper, in which he
published a series of sketches, now known as _Sketches by Boz_. The
_Pickwick Papers_ came next, and these were succeeded by _Nicholas
Nickleby_, _Oliver Twist_, _The Old Curiosity Shop_, _Barnaby Budge_, and
a number of other fictions, in which vice is always painted in its true
colours, and the advantage of truthfulness, straightforward dealing, and
kindliness brought out in strong and clear characters. He died at the
age of fifty-eight, and was privately buried in Westminster Abbey in
1870.