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    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He had a difficult childhood and had to work in a factory after his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens went on to become one of the most famous and influential novelists of the Victorian era, writing such beloved classics as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. He edited several magazines and newspapers and also went on speaking tours. Dickens died in 1870 after suffering a stroke.

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    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He had a difficult childhood and had to work in a factory after his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens went on to become one of the most famous and influential novelists of the Victorian era, writing such beloved classics as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. He edited several magazines and newspapers and also went on speaking tours. Dickens died in 1870 after suffering a stroke.

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    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He had a difficult childhood and had to work in a factory after his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens went on to become one of the most famous and influential novelists of the Victorian era, writing such beloved classics as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. He edited several magazines and newspapers and also went on speaking tours. Dickens died in 1870 after suffering a stroke.

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    NAME GAURAV SHARMA

    CLASS --- 9 (a)


    ROLL NO. --- 10
    SUBJECT --- ENGLISH
    MY FAVOURITE
    AUTHOR

    CHARLES DICKENS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam
    Dickens) was born in Landport, Portsmouth,
    on
    February 7, 1812. Charles was the second
    of
    eight children to John Dickens (17861851),
    a
    clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and his wife
    Elizabeth
    Dickens (17891863). The Dickens
    family moved
    to London in 1814 and two years
    later to Chatham,
    Kent, where Charles spent
    early years of his
    childhood. Due to the financial difficulties they moved back to
    London in 1822,
    where they settled in Camden Town,
    a poor neighborhood of London.
    The defining moment of Dickens's life occurred when he was 12
    years old. His father, who had a difficult time managing money
    and was constantly in debt, was imprisoned in the Marshalsea
    debtor's prison in 1824. Because of this, Charles was withdrawn
    from school and forced to work in a warehouse that handled
    'blacking' or shoe polish to help support the family.
    After a few months Dickens's father was
    released from prison and Charles was
    allowed to go back to school. At fifteen
    his formal education ended and he found
    employment as an office boy at an
    attorney's, while he studied shorthand
    at night. From 1830 he worked as a
    shorthand reporter in the courts and
    afterwards as a parliamentary and
    newspaper reporter.
    In 1833 Dickens began to contribute short stories and essays to
    periodicals. A Dinner at Popular Walk was Dickens's first
    published story. It appeared in the Monthly Magazine in
    December 1833. In 1834, still a newspaper reporter, he
    adopted the soon to be famous pseudonym Boz. Dickens's first

    book, a collection of stories titledSketches by Boz, was


    published in 1836. In the same year he married Catherine
    Hogarth,
    daughter of the editor of the Evening
    Chronicle. Together they had 10 children
    before
    they separated in 1858.
    Although Dickens's main profession was as a
    novelist,
    he continued his journalistic work
    until the end of his
    life, editing The Daily News, Household Words, and All the Year
    Round. His connections to various magazines
    and newspapers gave him the opportunity to
    begin
    publishing his own fiction at the beginning
    of his
    career.
    In 1842 he travelled with his wife to the United States and
    Canada, which led to his controversial American Notes(1842)
    and is also the basis of some of the episodes inMartin
    Chuzzlewit. Dickens's series of five Christmas Books were soon
    to follow; A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes(1844), The
    Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The
    Haunted Man (1848). After living briefly abroad in Italy (1844)
    and Switzerland (1846) Dickens continued his success
    with Dombey and Son(1848), the largely
    autobiographical David Copperfield(1849-50), Bleak
    House (1852-53), Hard Times (1854),Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale
    of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861).

    In the closing years of his life Dickens


    worsened his declining health by giving
    numerous readings. During his readings in
    1869 he collapsed, showing symptoms of
    mild stroke. He retreated to Gad's Hill
    and began to work on Edwin Drood, which
    was never completed.
    Charles Dickens died at home on June 9, 1870 after suffering a
    stroke. Contrary to his wish to be buried in Rochester Cathedral,
    he was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.

    NOVELS

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

    The Adventures of Oliver Twist

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    Barnaby Rudge:

    The Christmas books:

    A Christmas Carol (1843)

    The Chimes (1844)

    The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)

    The Battle of Life (1846)

    The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)


    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

    Non fiction poetry, and plays

    The Village Coquettes (Plays, 1836)

    The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841)

    Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838)

    American Notes (1842)

    Pictures from Italy (1846)

    Short story collections

    Sketches by Boz (1836)

    The Mudfog Papers (1837)

    Reprinted Pieces (1861)

    The Uncommercial Traveller (18601869)

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