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This decision paid off handsomely. After a trying interval of freelance reporting for the proctors of Doctors' Commons, a college or 'common house' of doctors of law near St. Paul's Cathedral, Dickens obtained work in the reporters' gallery of the House of Commons. In a brief period he distinguished himself among the eighty or ninety parliamentary reporters, rising to the highest rank and graduating from transcribing speeches verbatim to covering various events for different London newspapers. 15 About this time, his 'first effusion[s]', as he referred to his earliest compositions, began to appear anonymously and then later under the pen name of 'Boz', as Dickens gained a reputation in the newspaper world.
In 1825 he retired from the civil service, supplementing his annual pension of £145 with journalistic work. Later he fell into debt again but was bailed out by Dickens in 1834 (see pp 24-5), who tried to remove his parents to the country to keep them out of harm (see pp 46-8). 15. For a note on Dickens's early career as a journalist, see pp 22-3. Dickens spoke of the benefits of his apprenticeship on 20 May 1865 in his address to the Newspaper Press Fund and again on 18 Apr. 1868 at the banquet in his honour given by the New York Press.
No further crises occurred as Dickens prepared for the first of his paid public readings, his latest attempt to wear and toss his domestic unhappiness away, as he commented in August 1858 (N, III, 38). Forster opposed the readings because he disapproved of putting oneself before the public as a paid performer, but Dickens's overrode these objections and went ahead, taking his place on the stage for the 12 Selected Letters of Charles Dickens first occasion on 29 April 1858. About this time, his marital troubles appear to have come to an unexpected climax when a London jeweller mistakenly delivered a bracelet Dickens had purchased for Ellen Ternan to his wife.
