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Charles Dickens

1812-1870

Lisa Zaderey
Early life
• February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born to John and Elizabeth Dickens.

• 1824: John Dickens arrested for his debts and sent to Marshalsea prison. A 12-year-old
Charles Dickens is forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory pasting labels on shoe polish
containers to provide for the family.

• 1833: Dickens publishes his first story, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk,” in The Monthly Magazine.

• 1836: Dickens begins monthly installments of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. The novel
becomes a publishing phenomenon, going from selling 500 copies of the first installment to
over 40,000 of the last one in 1847.
Early life
• 1837: Dickens’ first child, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens, is born—the first of his 10 children.
He begins publishing monthly installments of Oliver Twist. The book, beloved by factory
workers and Queen Victoria unlike, make Dickens one of the most popular writers of his times.

• 1840: Dickens begins publishing installments of The Old Curiosity Shop, which quickly becomes
the bestselling novel

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest novelists in the English language. He wrote about the real world of Victorian England and many of his characters were not rich, middle-class ladies and gentlemen, but poor and hungry people. Though he did not believe in revolutionary action, he was on the side of the people with all his heart. He wanted what the people wanted.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth on the southern coast of England. His father was a clerk at the office of a large naval station there, and the family lived on his small salary. There were eight children

in the family, so life

was hard. Charles went

to school and his

teachers thought

he was very clever.

The happy days of childhood came to an end when the father was moved to London. Charles was the eldest son, but he was not sent to school again. The father made no plans for the education of his children. He was an easy-going man who always spent more money than he could afford. Soon he lost his job and was imprisoned for debt. The family went

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Charles Dickens Biography

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2. “Despite the many years that have passed, Charles Dickens remains one of the greatest writers of the English language, who used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice”. Prince of Wales

3. CHILDHOOD • Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth. • He spent the first ten years of his life in Kent. • Charles was the second of eight children.

4. HIS PARENTS • His mother, Elizabeth Barrow, had been in service to Lord Crew although she aspired to be a teacher and school director. • His father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay office.

5. • In 1822, the Dickens family moved to Camden Town. • John Dickens was imprisoned for debt in 1824, when Charles was just twelve years old. • Dickens’s mother moved into the prison with seven of her children.

6. • Only Charles lived outside the prison in order to earn money for the st