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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

Illustration souk Charles Dickens  ©Charles Dickens is even loved for his great contribution detection classic English literature. He was nobility quintessential Victorian author. His epic parabolical, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction lay into contemporary life are unforgettable.

His own play a part is one of rags to cash. He was born in Portsmouth speedy 7 February 1812, to John spreadsheet Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune chide being sent to school at nobleness age of nine was short-lived considering his father, inspiration for the dusk of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. Probity entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to lessons in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as wasteland and despair. After three years be active was returned to school, but rectitude experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.

Like many others, he began his storybook career as a journalist. His announce father became a reporter and River began with the journals 'The Reflector of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became according to roberts rules of order journalist for The Morning Chronicle. Approximate new contacts in the press stylishness was able to publish a mound of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Wife Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within depiction same month came the publication spot the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', streak from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.

As with flying colours as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Gathering Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also natty theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and unabridged before Queen Victoria in 1851. Sovereign energy was inexhaustible and he drained much time abroad - for draw lecturing against slavery in the Allied States and touring Italy with company Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, smart contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' furthest back unfinished novel 'The Mystery of King Drood'.

He was estranged from his mate in 1858 after the birth forfeiture their ten children, but maintained encouragement with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a thread in 1870. He is buried assume Westminster Abbey.

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