what other writers influenced charles dickens?
Tobias Smollett Washington Irving Miguel de Cervantes William Wordsworth Honoré de Balzac Henry Fielding Victor Hugo Sheridan Le Fanu William Shakespeare Laurence Sterne
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 Christopher Marlowe 's Hero and Leander and Dido , Queen of Carthage , both similar stories written in Shakespeare 's day , are thought to be less of a direct influence , although they may have helped create an atmosphere in which tragic love stories could thrive . 

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 English literature contains many references to him , for example in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens , and in this folk rhyme : 

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 Although Austen 's novels had always been popular , they were disparaged by academics of English literature until her work was reassessed by F. R. Leavis , Ian Watt and others during the mid @-@ 20th century . They recognised Austen 's importance to the development of the English novel after Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 1754 ) and Samuel Richardson ( 1689 – 1761 ) and before Charles Dickens . They agreed that she combined Fielding and Richardson 's " qualities of interiority and irony , realism and satire to form an author superior to both " . Austen 's six main novels , in order of publication , are Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma and the posthumous Persuasion and Northanger Abbey . 

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 Perhaps as early as 1787 , Austen began to write poems , stories and plays for her and her family 's amusement . She later compiled " fair copies " of 29 of these early works into three bound notebooks , now known as the Juvenilia , with pieces written from 1787 to 1793 . Manuscript evidence exists that Austen continued to work on these pieces as late as 1809 – 1811 and her niece and nephew , Anna and James Edward Austen , made further additions as late as 1814 . Among the pieces are Love and Freindship [ sic ] , a satirical epistolary novel in which she mocked popular novels of sensibility , and The History of England , a 34 @-@ page manuscript accompanied by 13 watercolour miniatures by Cassandra . 

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 In a verse letter to Ben Jonson dated to about 1608 , Francis Beaumont alludes to several playwrights , including Shakespeare , about whom he wrote , 
