Who influenced Charles Dickens?

Charles Dickens was an eager and early reader. This was influenced by his mother learnings. Mary Weller was an early influence on Charles Dickens. She was hired to take of care Dickens and his siblings. Her bedtime stories, featured people like Captain Murder, who supposedly would make pies of out his wives. She swore these stories extremely true. Charles Dickens said, "The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet."