Later, in his cook books, he would often include a sketch of himself, so that people on the street would be able to recognize—and admire—him.

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The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

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Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the ten-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

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From then on his sketches ,which appeared under the pen name “Boz” in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a modest reputation.

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At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

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The first published sketch, "A dinner at Poplar Walk" brought tears to Dickens'eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

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