Charles Dickens as a Reader (Esprios Classics)

Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet biographer and journalist born in London. After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott he became editor of the Sun (1845-70) studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple but thereafter devoted himself to literature. He edited Weekly Register a Roman Catholic paper (1874-81). A personal friend of Charles Dickens he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickenss editorship and to other periodicals. Several volumes of poems published previously in the forties fifties and sixties provided the materials for his collected Poems (1870).