Charles Dickens

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was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth and he died on 9 June 1870

formal education proved to be short

Charles himself was forced to work ten-hours days in a 'Blacking' factory

suffered three years of terrible loneliness and hardship

1833: parlamentary reporter for The Morning Charoniccle

He published 'Boz'

Sketches by Boz

Pickwick Papers

1836: married Catherine Hogarth

travel to Italy

He also wrote for the theatre and performed in front of of Queen Victoria in 1851

left his wife in 1858 for his mistress

Works:

David Copperfield

Bleak House

Dombey

Hard Times

A Christmas Carol

Oliver Twist

Pickwick Papers

The Old Curiosity Shop

Dickens' houmor

Mr Pickwick

inventivess

Great Expectations

Dickens wrote very copiously and quickly

Dickens needed to maintain interest from one episode to another

suspence

caricatures embodying particular vices or virtues