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Was born in Portsmouth, England in February 1812 2 Ordnance Terrace, Chatham, Dickens's home 1817– 1822
He was the second of eight children to John Dickens (1785 -1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (Barrow 1789 -1863). Charles Dickens’s father Charles Dickens’s mother
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 When he was 24 years old, Dickens published his first book «Sketches by Boz» . Some years later Dickens made a journey to the USA after which his faith in the ideals bourgeois democracy was shaken. His experiences are reflected in «American Notes» His most famous work “Oliver Twist” describes the poor state of education for children of ordinary people.
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.
The most famouse Dickens’s works. 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)
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 Ellen Ternan.
Death of the writer On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, on 9 June, five years to the day after the Staplehurst rail crash, he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner, "[79] he was laid to rest in the Poets' Cornerof Westminster Abbey. His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down
Dickens isn’t Forgotten! Dickens was commemorated on the Series E £ 10 note issued by the Bank of England that was in circulation in the UK between 1992 and 2003. His portrait appeared on the reverse of the note accompanied by a scene from The Pickwick Papers. A theme park, Dickens World, standing in part on the site of the former naval dockyard where Dickens's father once worked in the Navy Pay Office, opened in Chatham in 2007, and to celebrate the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens in 2012, the Museum of London held the UK's first major exhibition on the author in 40 years. In the UK survey entitled The Big Read carried out by the BBC in 2003, five of Dickens's books were named in the Top 100.
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