Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Выполнила: ученица 10

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Выполнила: ученица 10 «Б» класса, Мясищева Анастасия Преподаватель: Ковалёва Елена Николаевна

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at Landport in Portsea, the second of eight children to John Dickens (1785-1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (Barrow) (1789-1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily on duty in the district.

Very soon after Charles birth the family moved to Norfolk Street, Bloomsbury, and then, when he was four, to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11.

The Dickens family moved from Kent to Camden Town in London in 1822. Prone to living beyond his means, John Dickens was imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtors' prison in Southwark London in 1824.

Shortly afterwards, Elizabeth Dickens and the youngest children joined John Dickens in prison, as was the practice at the time. Charles, then 12 years old, was boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, in Camden Town.

On 2 April 1836 he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk, Kent, they returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn. Catherine Hogarth Dickens

The first of ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a three-year lease at £80 a year) from 25 March 1837 until December 1839. Now it is a museum.

In 1842, Dickens and his wife made their first trip to the United States and Canada. He described his impressions in a travelogue “American Notes for General Circulation”.

Works

Novels: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club The Adventures of Oliver Twist The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times: For These Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Short story collections: Sketches by Boz The Mudfog Papers Reprinted Pieces The Uncommercial Traveller

Selected non-fiction, poetry, and plays: The Village Coquettes The Fine Old English Gentleman Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi American Notes: For General Circulation Pictures from Italy The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children A Child's History of England The Frozen Deep Speeches, Letters and Sayings

He died of a stroke in 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave.

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