author
Frederic George Kitton
1856–1904
Best known for his work on Charles Dickens, this Victorian illustrator and critic brought a reader’s enthusiasm and an artist’s eye to literary history. His books and essays helped shape how later generations pictured Dickens and the world around him.
4 Audiobooks
Charles Dickens
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Frederic George Kitton
"Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir.
by Frederic George Kitton
Dickens and His Illustrators Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes 2nd. Ed.
by Frederic George Kitton
The Dickens Country
by Frederic George Kitton
About the author
Born in Norwich in 1856, Frederic George Kitton became a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and author whose name is closely linked with Charles Dickens. He trained in the graphic arts and worked for illustrated periodicals before building a reputation as a careful and enthusiastic Dickens scholar.
Kitton wrote and edited books about Dickens’s life, writings, illustrators, and London settings, blending bibliography, biography, and visual culture in a way that appealed to both general readers and serious admirers. Sources also describe him as someone active in local historical preservation, especially during his years in St Albans, where his interest in the past extended beyond literature.
He died in 1904, but his work remains useful for readers curious about how Dickens was first collected, illustrated, and interpreted. For anyone exploring Victorian literary culture, Kitton stands out as one of the early guides who helped turn Dickens appreciation into a field of study.