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"Phiz" is a biography about Hablot Knight Browne, an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Excerpt: "Fizz, Whizz, or something of that sort," humorous Tom Hood would say when trying to recall the pseudonym that has since become so familiar using the innumerable works of art to which it was appended. At the time Hablot Knight Browne first used this quaint sobriquet, it was customary to look upon book-illustrators as second, or even third-rate artists—mere hacks..."
Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels.