Fido, Martin, The World of Charles Dickens: The Life, Times and Work of the Great Victorian Novelist, Carlton, 1999.

This book provides background information on Dickens's
time, life, and work.

Hobsbaum, Philip, A Reader's Guide to Charles Dickens, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.

This work examines all of Dickens's work and provides
a guide to readers.

Kaplan, Fred, Dickens: A Biography, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

This biography of Dickens is written for high school
students.

Pool, Daniel, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, Touchstone Books, 1994.

This fascinating volume explains all the customs of
daily life in Dickens's time.