Elizabeth Dickens
Elizabeth Culliford Dickens was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her sons novel Nicholas Nickleby and for Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield.
One of eight children of Charles Barrow and Mary Culliford , Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was a small pretty girl of about sixteen, with bright hazel eyes, an inordinate sense of the ludicrous, and remarkable powers of comic mimicry, cheerful, sweettempered, and well educated. In 1810 Elizabeths father, who also worked for the Navy Pay Office as Chief Conductor of Monies in Town, was found guilty of embezzling 5,689 3s 3d and fled to the Continent, turning up thirteen years later in the Isle of Man. Elizabeth married John Dickens onJune 1809 in the church of St MaryleStrand in London. Shortly after the marriage the couple moved to Landport in Portsmouth and here Charles Dickens, the second of their eight children, was born in 1812. As a young boy he was taught to read by his mother, and later also a lit
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