Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the ten-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

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From then on his sketches,which appeared under the pen name "Boz" in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a modest reputation.

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