[E. B. Hamley], from ‘Remonstrance with Dickens', Blackwood's Magazine

Hamley (1824–93), soldier, later General Sir Edward Hamley, contributed to Blackwood’s and Fraser’s, and wrote novels, military works, etc. His review-article begins with an enthusiastic account of Pickwick and other early novels, notably Chuzzlewit, and then remonstrates with Dickens for leaving his proper field. Walt Whitman commended this article, about ‘the degeneracy so evident’ in the later Dickens (‘Charles Dickens’, Brooklyn Daily Times, 6 May 1857).