Thus she was, after but a few years of married life, taken away from him, and he became as it were a widower till the end of his days.
At this period, and indeed for some years after his marriage, his chief literary dependence was on _Fraser's Magazine_.

He wrote also at this time in the _New Monthly Magazine_.

In 1840 he brought out his _Paris Sketch Book_, as to which he tells us by a notice printed with the first edition, that half of the sketches had already been published in various periodicals.

Here he used the name Michael Angelo Titmarsh, as he did also with the _Journey from Cornhill to Cairo_.

Dickens had called himself Boz, and clung to the name with persistency as long as the public would permit it.