A Brief Introduction
Charles Dickens was born
on February 7, 1812 in
Portse, England. His father
was a Navy Pay clerk and
was horrible at handling
finances. At the age of 12, His father rescued him from
Dickens was sent to work at work and was able to send
the Warrens Blacking him to day school in London
Factory, where he hated from 1824 to 1827.
working.
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• At age fifteen Charles found
employment as an office
boy for an attorney. In 1829
he became a reporter at
Doctor's Commons Courts.
• By 1832 he became a
shorthand reporter of
Parliamentary debates in
the House of Commons and
a reporter for a newspaper
and adopted his famous
name “Boz”.
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• He wrote a series of texts called
Sketches by Boz, which were
published in 1836. He was also hired
to write short texts called The
Pickwick Papers to accompany
humorous sports illustrations
designed by artist Robert Seymour.
• The Pickwick Papers
were published
through November
1837 and became an
enormous success.
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• Dickens became a fulltime
novelist after the success of
The Pickwick Papers. In
1837 he started writing
Oliver Twist and it
continued in monthly parts
through April of 1839. In
1838 he began Nicholas
Nickleby and it was
completed in 1841. In July
of 1844, A Christmas Carol
was published and proved
to be another successful
work.
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• A few works were published between
A Christmas Carol and David
Copperfield. In 1859 parts of A Tale of
Two Cities was published in his weekly
paper All the Year Round. At about the
same time Great Expectations also
appeared weekly until August of 1861.
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Gradually his health
worsened and in 1869 he
experienced a mild stroke.
He began working on the
Mystery of Edwin Drood. His
final weekly reading took
place in London in 1870. On
June 8, he suffered another
stroke and died the next
day. He was buried at
Westminster Abbey on June
14 and
Short summary of charles dickens Charles Dickens Biography
1. CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) Complementos para la formación disciplinar en Lengua Inglesa Jessica González 2. “Despite the many years that have passed, Charles Dickens remains one of the greatest writers of the English language, who used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice”. Prince of Wales 3. CHILDHOOD • Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth. • He spent the first ten years of his life in Kent. • Charles was the second of eight children. 4. HIS PARENTS • His mother, Elizabeth Barrow, had been in service to Lord Crew although she aspired to be a teacher and school director. • His father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay office. 5. • In 1822, the Dickens family moved to Camden Town. • John Dickens was imprisoned for debt in 1824, when Charles was just twelve years old. • Dickens’s mother moved into the prison with seven of her children. 6. • Only Charles lived outside the prison in order to earn money for the struggling family. • He worked with other children pasting labels on bottles in a blacking warehouse where he endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. 8. Dickens was permitted to go back to school when his father received a family inheritance and used it to pay off his debts, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalized in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'. 9. • As a young boy, Charles Dickens was exposed to many artistic and literary works that allowed his imagination to grow and develop considerably. • He was greatly influenced by the stories his nursemaid used to tell him and by his many visits to the theater. 10. Additionally, Dickens loved to read. Among his favorite works were Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes, Tome Jones by Henry Fielding, and Arabian Nights. 11. Charles dickens biography
1. National Institute of Business Department of English Year III, Semester II Bachelor’s Degree of Education in TEFL A19 MORNING ASSIGNMENT Subject: Literature Studies Topic: An author and his book “CHARLES DICKENS and A Christmas Carol” Submitted to : Mr. Them Bunroth Submitted by: Ms. Oum vidasophea Ms. Aon somavotey Ms. Neom yang Mr. Mom meayeat Academic year : 2011-2012 2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles Dickens Birth Name: Charles John Huffham Dickens Date of Birth: 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire,England,UK Date of Death: 9 June 1870, Gad's Hill, Rochester, Kent, England, UK (cerebral haemorrhage) 3. Dickens’s house (1817-1822) 4. DICKENS’S CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLING 5. • Dickens was born in a poor family. • He was a second child of eight children. • His father was a clerk and his mother was a factory worker • In 1824, Dickens worked in the factory ( shoes polish) with his mother while his father was being in prison. 6. In the age of 12 he lived alone. In 1824- 1827 Dickens returned school in London. In the age of 15 he forced to leave school and worked as an office boy . In the following year he became a freelance reporter and stenographer (using shorthand to transcribe documents) at the law courts of London. 7. By 1832 he had become a reporter for two London newspapers. in the following year, began to contribute a series of impressions and sketches to other newspapers and magazines, signing some of them "Boz." These scenes of London life went far to establish his reputation and were published in 1836 as Sketches by Boz, his first book. On the strength of this success Charles married Catherine Hogarth. Together they had ten children. 8. HIS EARLY WORK 9. In 1837 a form of serial publication became a standard method of writing and producing fiction in the Victorian period. In the same year he was an editor of Bentley's Miscellany magazine and then he started Charles dickens fact file Charles dickens biography for students pdf Charles dickens' childhood experiences