In what business were Dombey and Son in Charles Dickens's 1847-48 novel?

In Charles Dickens’s 1847-48 novel of that name, Dombey and Son was a shipping firm.

Who said, “There are no second acts in American lives”? F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "There are no second acts in American lives".
Who wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)? Charlotte Bronte's close friend, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte. The two met in 1850; Bronte died five years later.
What does Sartor Resartus mean? The title of Carlyle's 1833-34 satire on German philosophy Sartor Resartus means "the tailor retailored" in Latin. It comments on the work of the fictitious Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, philosopher of clothes.
Who created Roderick Hudson? Henry James created Roderick Hudson, in the 1876 novel of the same name.
Who is the hero of William Faulkner’s Light in August (1932)? The hero of William Faulkner's Light in August is Joe Christmas. He was a man believed to be part black, who murders a white woman named Joanna Burden and is castrated and killed…
Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)? The hero of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man has no name. He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.