By the way, anybody else who may have enjoyed Dickens' work, either in book form or any of the very good screen adaptations, might be interested in a very good biography simply titled Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. It's a very long book, over 1000 pages in paperback, largely because it gives so much background to Dickens' life and times; the places that he lived in or frequented in his long night walks around London to gather material ; his family history so much of which haunted him and was reflected in many of his books, especially David Copperfield. It's a brilliant historical reference book on early/mid 19th century London and England as well as a biography.
