In an 1845 tale, Mrs. Peerybingle says, "To have" one of these "on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!"
[DOC] [TLE] Read his remarks [PAR] Upon his return to England in 1845 he wrote The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), 
which was ... One could ask if Dickens knew about Cowper and his Cricket poem.