1. Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850), p. 1.
2. The Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vols, ed. Madeline House et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965–2002), Vol. II, p. 106.
3. Dickens’ Journalism: Volume II, ed. Michael Slater (London: Dent, 1996), p. 7.
4. Dickens’ Journalism: Volume I, ed. Michael Slater (London: Dent, 1994), pp. 306–15.
5. Quoted in Philip Collins (ed.), Dickens: Interviews and Recollections, Volume1 (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1981), p. 122.