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| | Charles Dickens, the Examiner, and "The Fine Old English Gentleman" (1841) |
 | | John Forster, shortly to begin his life-long friendship and commercial relationship with Dickens, became the magazine's literary editor in 1835, and, succeeding Albany Fonblanque, served as editor from 1847 to 1855. |
 | | Although Dickens displayed little interest in the serious verse of Browning, Tennyson, or Meredith, he enjoyed poetry of the sentimental and comic varieties, the former often written by middle-class women such as Adelaide Proctor, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon. |
 | | Albany Fonblanque, the journal's political commentator since 1826, took over the Examiner in 1830, serving as editor until 1847. |
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