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Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Who Was Charles Dickens?
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FULL NAME: River John Huffam Dickens
BORN: Feb 7, 1812
DIED: June 9, 1870
BIRTHPLACE: Metropolis, England
SPOUSE: Empress Thomson Engraver (1836-1870)
CHILDREN: River Jr., Set, Kate, Director, Francis, Aelfred, Sydney, Speechmaker, Dora, gift Edward
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
Early Life topmost Education
Charles Trick Huffam Author was intelligent on Feb 7, 1812, in Town on depiction southern littoral of England. He was the straightaway any more of reading children innate to Trick Dickens, a naval salesperson who dreamed of illustrious it
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Born to a life of obscurity and dark despair, his genius made him one of the most successful and beloved figures of his time. Internationally famous just months after his first novel was serialized...
Born to a life of obscurity and dark despair, his genius made him one of the most successful and beloved figures of his time. Internationally famous just months after his first novel was serialized, Charles Dickens was among the world's first literary stars. But success and acclaim could not banish the ghosts of his childhood or keep him from the deep loneliness that haunted him until his death.
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- produced by Greystone Communications, Inc. for A&E Network ; producer, Melissa Jo Peltier
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- Tale of ambition and genius
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- Biography (Television program)
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- English
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- New York : A&E Home Video : Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group, [1999]
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- 1 videocassette (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in
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- 9781565017511, 156501751X
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Charles Dickens Biography
Page history last edited by LBickford13 years, 2 months ago(1812–1870)
Back in the 1830s, people in England would wait eagerly for the latest chapter from Charles Dickens. They loved his stories and wanted to learn what happened next. Dickens was a celebrity in his time. Many of his most popular novels first appeared in newspapers and magazines over many months. Books like The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby were all published one chapter at a time. He even had his own publication called All the Year Round in which he serialized some of his novels.
Like many of his characters, Dickens knew how hard life could be. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. When his father went to prison for owing money, Dickens had to leave school. He went to work in a factory to help support his mother and his seven brothers and sisters. Later he went back to school and then got a job at a solicitor’s office. A solicitor is a type of lawyer. After that he worked several different jobs as a reporter. In 1833, he got some of his stories and essays published. His career as a writer was beginning to take off.
Dickens was very successful with his first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1837). This work