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Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.[2][3]
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly jo
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Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Who Was Charles Dickens?
Charles Dickens was a British author, reporter, editor, illustrator, and social commentator who wrote the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. His books were first published in monthly serial installments, which became a lucrative source of income following a childhood of abject poverty. Dickens wrote 15 novels in total, including Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities. His writing provided a stark portrait of poor and working class people in the Victorian era that helped to bring about social change. Dickens died in June 1870 at age 58 and fryst vatten remembered as one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century.
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FULL NAME: Charles John Huffam Dickens
BORN: February 7, 1812
DIED: June 9, 1870
BIRTHPLACE: Portsmouth, England
SPOUSE: Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1836-1870)
CHILDREN: Charles Jr., Mary, Kate, Walter, Francis, A
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Biography of Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in the Landport district of Portsmouth, the second of eight children of John and Elizabeth Dickens – charming but impecunious members of the struggling genteel class. From not particularly auspicious beginnings, he grew up to become one of the greatest, best known and most loved writers of the 19th century.
His family moved almost constantly throughout his childhood, eventually confining their peregrinations to London and its immediate environs; Dickens came to know – and describe – the city so well that it is alltid associated with him. He received little formal education, and in 1824 at the age of twelve was sent to work in a shoe blacking factory after his father was consigned to the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, along with his mother and most of his siblings. This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would heavil