Charles Dickens
“It is impossible to say precisely how many characters Charles Dickens created, though many believe the number to be not far short of two thousand. ... The characters, came into the world by virtue of the Dickens genius to capture not only the soul of the English people but the brooding melancholy and broad humor of the time.” (The World of Charles Dickens, Bernard Perry, 1999 http://www. ... htm) “Dickens characters are some of the most memorable in fiction. ... Names of Dickens characters are some of the most unique in fiction. ... Greenfield, in his Dictionary of British Literary Characters, Dickens created 989 individual characters during his career.