CHARLES DICKENS Created by Julia Ostashchenko, 10 “C” form Teacher: Kovaleva E. N.
Early years of life Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He was born in 1812 at Portsmouth. Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison. But soon things got better. The debts were paid off, young Dickens was sent to school.
First steps at the literary career At the age of 24 Dickens published his first book “Sketches by Boz”. Some years later Dickens made a journey to the USA. His experiences are reflected in “American Notes”
Dickens saw the evils of the bourgeois society of his time and attacked them in his works. He wrote about the workhouses of England the tragedy of poor children who had lived in them. His most famous work “Oliver Twist” describes the poor state of education for children of ordinary people.
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (February 1837 to April 1839) Oliver Twist, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and is the basis for a highly successful musical play and the multiple Academy Award winning 1968 motion picture made from it.
Dickens’s other famous novels David Copperfield ( May 1849 to November 1850) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (April 1836 to November 1837) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (April 1838 to October 1839) The Old Curiosity Shop (April 1840, to February 1841) Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (February 1841, to November 1841) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843 to July 1844) Dombey and Son (October 1846 to April 1848) Bleak House (March 1852 to September 1853) Hard Times: For These Times (April 1854, to August 1854) Little Dorrit (December 1855 to June 1857) A Tale of Two Cities (April 1859, to November 1859) Great Expectations (December 1860 to August 1861) Our Mutual Friend (May 1864 to November 1865)
Private life Ellen Ternan Catherine Thomson Hogarth On 2 April 1836, after a one year engagement during, he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth. They had ten children. But they weren’t happy together. In 1857 Charles met 18 years old actress Ellen Ternan and he fell in love with her. They used to be lovers until the death of the
Death of the writer On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke at his home. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, on 9 June, he died at Gad's Hill Place at the age of 58. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
This great writer is not forgotten! There are monuments to Dickens in the USA, Russia and Australia In London there is a «Charles Dickens Museum» A crater on Mercury is named after Charles Dickens! In 2013 year the monument to Charles Dickens will be opened n Portsmouth
Charles Dickens’s museum in London
Charles Dickens’s works have been translated into many languages. In our country people of all ages read Dickens with great pleasure and interest!
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