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CHARLES DICKENS
He lived during the Victorian Age and the Industrial Revolution
LIFE
Unhappy childhood
His father was imprisoned for debt
Charles worked in a factory to help his family
At 15 he was emplyed as
office boy
He became a reporter
(pen-name Boz)
He became a
novelist
Published in
installments
in journals
Pickwick Papers
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
OLIVER TWIST
Published in 1837
PLOT
He's an orphan
Lives in a
workhouse
Sold to an undertaker as an apprentice
He joins a band of
pickpockets
Wounded during a
burglary
Adopted by a
middle class
family
Finds out he has noble origins
THEMES
CHILD LABOUR
Work in mines and factories
Children seen as innocent beings, corrupted by adults
Life in
industrial London
The workhouse: lower-middle class
Criminal word
Victorian middle class
Regard for moral values and people dignity