Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz, published at…
1836 CE
He will continue to contribute to and edit journals throughout much of his subsequent literary career.
Dickens had become a political journalist in 1834, reporting on parliamentary debate and traveling across Britain by stagecoach to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle.
His journalism, in the form of sketches that had appeared in periodicals from 1833, forms this first collection of pieces.
Dickens's keen perceptiveness, intimate knowledge, and understanding of the people, and tale-spinning genius will quickly gain him world renown and wealth.
In 1836 also, Dickens accepts the job of editor of Bentley's Miscellany, a position that he will hold until 1839, when he falls out with the owner.
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