Charles Dickens - CHARLES DICKENS BORN I 81 2-DIED Editors Note This collection of Dickens miscellaneous writings comprises what is considered the best of those contributions contained in the two collections first, that published by him in 1858 under the title of Reprinted Pieces second, the miscellaneous papers published by the late B. W. Matz, who extracted them from Household Words, The Examiner, and other periodicals.