When was the author friend of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield born?
Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens ( ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
George Knightley George Knightley is a principal character depicted by Jane Austen in her novel "Emma", written in 1815. He is a landowner and gentleman farmer, though one (as the author slily informs us) "having little spare money". A lifetime friend of Emma's, though nearly seventeen years older than she, he enjoys correcting Emma, as Emma observes in chapter 1.