author
Frederic George Kitton
1856–1904
Best known for his work on Charles Dickens, this Victorian writer and illustrator combined a researcher’s eye with an artist’s skill. His books helped readers picture Dickens’s world, from the novels themselves to the places and people behind them.
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 and dying in 1904, Frederic George Kitton was a British wood-engraver, author, and illustrator. He is chiefly remembered for his long engagement with Charles Dickens’s life and work, editing and illustrating Dickens editions and writing books that explored the novelist’s writings, personality, and literary world.
Kitton came to London as a young man to work as an artist and wood-engraver, and over time built a reputation not just as an illustrator but as a careful literary enthusiast. His published works include Dickens and His Illustrators and Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality, both of which show how strongly he was drawn to the visual and historical side of literature.
He also had ties to St Albans, where he is remembered for local sketches and historical interests alongside his Dickens studies. For readers today, Kitton stands out as one of those lively late-Victorian figures who helped preserve literary history while making it more vivid and approachable.