Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens...

(1833) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Mrs. Joseph Porter" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Horatio Sparkins" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Bloomsbury...

renders the dirty perspective uncertain and confined. In his collection Sketches by Boz, Dickens remarks, The stranger who finds himself in the Dials for the...

The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman...

journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces, published in 1836: Sketches by Boz—Boz being a family nickname...

rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Folly Ditch. In Sketches by Boz, Dickens described a rookery: Wretched houses with broken windows patched...

isolated descriptions. Charles Dickens’ collection of vignette sketches Sketches by Boz, although not contributing to a broader plot, explore common themes...

generations of doodling school children and is mentioned in Dickens; in Sketches by Boz. Chapter X there is a humorous description of rowers' togs on the Thames:...

earlier worked with Dickens on Sketches by Boz (1836) and Oliver Twist (1838), introduced him to the caricaturist John Leech. By 24 October Dickens invited...

for checked clothing in Victorian London. In Sketches by Boz, a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens, the "shepherds' plaid" is mentioned...