Charles Dickens

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People couldn�t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles started school but soon all of that would change.
Charles who couldn�t of hardly been ten years old when the household was again in trouble was forced to get a job in a shoe shining factory, to help support the family. You see his father had fallen heavily into debt and in 1824 he was arrested leaving his wife the mother of eight children to fend for herself. Charles had a sense of humiliation and abandonment that haunted him for life. He only held the shoe shining job for a short period of time but just the misery of the experience left scars for life.
From 1824 to 1826, Dickens again attended school and then finally left for good when he was 14. ...

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was a comic narrative into The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837). The book describes the humorous adventures and misadventures of a group of slightly eccentric characters in London and the English countryside. The book had a slow start but soon gained popularity. At 24, Dickens found himself famous.
Dickens maintained his fame with a constant stream of novels. He founded and edited two highly successful weekly magazines. He edited Household Words from 1850 to 1859 and All Year Round from 1859 to his death. Since fame had come Dickens way he was constantly in the news. He was famous in America as well as in Britain and he toured the United States in 1842 and in 1867 and 1868. He ...

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