Charles Dickens was born on February 7th 1812, in Porttsea, England. Raised by his father John Dickens who was a clerk in the naval pay office and Elizabeth Dickens who was a stay at home mom. Elizabeth had eight children and Charles Dickens was the second. His father didn’t make enough money which led the family to go debtor’s prison. The prison was called Marshalsea Prison. Charles had to work at the Warren Blackin Factory.
Soon they were released as well as the father. But the experiences that Charles faced made him scarred and worried that they might be in this situation again, so he kept on working in the factory. The father didn’t like the decision and made him stay with him. Charles became a pupil at a school in London. When he became fifteen he left the school and got a job working with an attorney being an office boy and at night he would study. He did that for the remaining of his childhood. But his life in debtor’s prison and Marshal Sea Prison still bothered him.
In his adult life he married Maria Beadmell and got a new job being a reporter at Doctors Commons Courts. He started to enjoy being a reporter and moved on to the newspaper. Three years later he separated from his wife because her parents did not approve of him. At the same time he was achieving success with his career and his first story and more came after that but at was soon put on hold because his father was put back in debtor’s prison and he needed to help him.
On 1836 on he published his first series called Sketches by Oz. Then he found work writing words to go along with pictures drawn by Robert Seymour. Sadly Robert Seymour committed suicide. After that he started writing The Pickwick Papers. After all these minor projects, he decided to be a novelist.
Then in 1837 the first of his ten children to come is born, he names him Charles. That is the same year when he started working on his book ” Oliver Twist” .Then in 1843 on of his most famous books of all time “A Christmas Carol” is published. Five years later in 1848 his beloved sister Fanny became terminally ill, that is and died. She was the inspiration for the character Fan in “A Christmas Carol”, that is also the same year he writes “The Haunted Man” the last of his Christmas books. The in 1851 his father John Dickens and his eight month old daughter both die. Eventually Charles became unhappy with his relationship with Catharine Dickens then in 1958 they were legally separated. In 1859 “A Tale of Two Cities” is published. Four years later in 1863 Charles Dickens mother Elizabeth Dickens dies. He starts on “Our Mutual Friend”, but a year later his son Walter becomes sick and Walter dies in India. On June, 9, 1870 at the age of 58 Charles Dickens died of a stroke in his house.
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7th 1812, in Porttsea, England. Raised by his father John Dickens who was a clerk in the naval pay office and Elizabeth Dickens who was a stay at home mom. Elizabeth had eight children and Charles Dickens was the second. His father didn’t make enough money which led the family to go debtor’s prison. The prison was called Marshalsea Prison. Charles had to work at the Warren Blackin Factory.
Soon they were released as well as the father. But the experiences that Charles faced made him scarred and worried that they might be in this situation again, so he kept on working in the factory. The father didn’t like the decision and made him stay with him. Charles became a pupil at a school in London. When he became fifteen he left the school and got a job working with an attorney being an office boy and at night he would study. He did that for the remaining of his childhood. But his life in debtor’s prison and Marshal Sea Prison still bothered him.
In his adult life he married Maria Beadmell and got a new job being a reporter at Doctors Commons Courts. He started to enjoy being a reporter and moved on to the newspaper. Three years later he separated from his wife because her parents did not approve of him. At the same time he was achieving success with his career and his first story and more came after that but at was soon put on hold because his father was put back in debtor’s prison and he needed to help him.
On 1836 on he published his first series called Sketches by Oz. Then he found work writing words to go along with pictures drawn by Robert Seymour. Sadly Robert Seymour committed suicide. After that he started writing The Pickwick Papers. After all these minor projects, he decided to be a novelist.
Then in 1837 the first of his ten children to come is born, he names him Charles. That is the same year when he started working on his book ” Oliver Twist” .Then in 1843 on of his most famous books of all time “A Christmas Carol” is published. Five years later in 1848 his beloved sister Fanny became terminally ill, that is and died. She was the inspiration for the character Fan in “A Christmas Carol”, that is also the same year he writes “The Haunted Man” the last of his Christmas books. The in 1851 his father John Dickens and his eight month old daughter both die. Eventually Charles became unhappy with his relationship with Catharine Dickens then in 1958 they were legally separated. In 1859 “A Tale of Two Cities” is published. Four years later in 1863 Charles Dickens mother Elizabeth Dickens dies. He starts on “Our Mutual Friend”, but a year later his son Walter becomes sick and Walter dies in India. On June, 9, 1870 at the age of 58 Charles Dickens died of a stroke in his house.
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