Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870), pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. During his career Dickens wrote many entertaining works which were immensely popular and displayed his rich imagination and comic genius. Now he is viewed as one of the major novelists of the Victorian era and an important documenter of life in those times.

He was encountered in 1869 Cardiff by the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler during the events of The Unquiet Dead.