Dickens and Childhood

''No words can express the secret agony of my soul''. Dickens''s tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren''s Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster''s biography after Dickens''s death. Such a revelation partly explains the dominance of biography in early Dickens criticism; Dickens''s own childhood was understood to provide the material for his writing, particularly his re...