CHARLES DICKENS BIOGRAPHY
BY
JOSE ALEJANDRO TAMAYO
Charles Dickens life
•Charles John Huffon Dickens was his complete name . Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport Portsmouth in Hampshire, the second of eight children's. John Dickens , the Charles Dickens father was in the jail in marshalsea . In 1833 Dickens was able to get his very first story, A Dinner at Poplar Walk, published in the London periodical, Monthly Magazine. The following year he rented rooms at Furnivall inn becoming a political journalist, reporting on parliamentary debate and travelling across Britain by stagecoach to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle.
Famous novels
•The Pick Wick Papers
•The Adventure Of Oliver Twist
•The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
•The Old Curiosity Shop
•Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
•The Christmas books:
–A Christmas Carol (1843)
–The Chimes (1844)
–The Cricket On The Earth(1845)
–The Battle Of Life (1846)
–The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
HIS CAREER
•A well-known personality, his novels proved immensely popular during his lifetime. His first full novel, The Pickwick Papers (1837), brought him immediate fame, and this success continued throughout his career. Although rarely departing greatly from his typical "Dickensian" method of always attempting to write a great "story" in a somewhat conventional manner, he experimented with varied themes, characterizations, and genres
HIS DEATH
•On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home. Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected to honour him. The only life-size bronze statue of Dickens, cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, is located in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in the United States.
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