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Elizabeth Dickens
Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ''Nicholas Nickleby''〔 and for Mrs Micawber in ''David Copperfield''.〔(A Transcription of Charles Dickens's "A Bundle of Emigrants' Letters" (30 March 1850) on Victorian Web )〕
==Early years and marriage==
One of ten children of Charles Barrow (1759–1826) and Mary Culliford (1771–1851), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was "a small pretty girl of about sixteen, with bright hazel eyes, an inordinate sense of the ludicrous, and remarkable powers of comic mimicry, cheerful, sweet-tempered, and well educated". In 1810 Elizabeth's father, who also worked for the Navy Pay Office as Chief Conductor of Monies in Town, was found guilty of embezzling £5,689 3s 3d and fled to the Continent, turning up thirteen years later in the Isle of Man.〔Johnson, Edgar, ''Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph'' Allen Lane (1977) pg 14〕 Elizabeth married John Dickens on 13 June 1809 in the church of St Mary-le-Strand in London. Shortly after the marriage the couple moved to Landport in Portsmouth and here Charles Dickens, the second of their eight children, was born in 1812. As a young boy he was taught to read by his mother, and later also a little Latin,〔Johnson, pg 18〕 awakening, as Charles later told his friend and biographer John Forster "his first desire for knowledge and his earliest passion for reading". According to Mary Weller, the Dickens' servant when they were living in Chatham, Elizabeth Dickens was "a dear, good mother and a fine woman".〔Langton, Robert ''Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens (1891) pg 26〕
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