Dickens was deeply in love with Maria Beadnell during those years, but her family disapproved and took her to the Continent as a way of ending the connection.
The woman whom Charles Dickens was close to during the ages of 18 to 20 was Maria Beadnell. She was the daughter of a family friend, and Dickens fell deeply in love with her. Their relationship was significant for him, but it ultimately ended due to her family's disapproval and her decision to marry someone else. This early romance had a lasting impact on Dickens and influenced his later writings.
Her name was Fan, probably from Fanny, itself a derivitive of Frances. It comes as no surprise that Dickens had an older sister named Frances, to whom he was very close in childhood.
Her name was Ellen Ternan.
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Ellen Ternan was performing in plays alongside her mother and sister when Dickens met them and became a friend to the family. His relationship with Ellen (which is still ambiguous) continued until his death.
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In 1830, Dickens fell desparately in love with Maria Beadnell, a flirtacious "little blonde doll." She kept him hoping until 1832, when she accepted another lover. Her parents were understandably leary of an unknown writer with a questionable background and discouraged his suit. Dickens was devasted; it broke his heart, as many first loves do.
Dickens said that Boz was 'the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz'. The real name of the brother was Augustus. Dickens' own son was christened Charles Culliford Boz Dickens. Dickens used a pen-name for his first stories because he was, at the time, a serious political columnist, and the lightweight sketches and stories he first published might have damaged his credibility.
Dickens was deeply in love with Maria Beadnell during those years, but her family disapproved and took her to the Continent as a way of ending the connection.
Charles Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth on April 2, 1836. They proceeded to have ten children in their 34 years of marriage.