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By contrast, Catherine Macready Dickens, Kate, or Katey, was affectionately referred to as "Lucifer Box," because her temper flamed up quickly and warmly, like a tinderbox full of sulfurous lucifer matches, an inferior and volatile forerunner to the 1830s phosphorous match

Sensibly, #Dickens mostly named his children after family members and celebrity friends, but "Boz" also gave them fabulous nicknames typical of his fictional characters.

His eldest Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, or Charley, was dubbed "Flaster Floby" (corruption of Master Toby)

Does anything about this image suggest Christmas to you?

@DrPeteOrford #Dickens150

‘... a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone...’

What could say ‘London’ better than the river and its bridges?
#LondonHistoryDay #OurMutualFriend