Charles Dicken's Biography

CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens was born on February 7 1812 on Landport near Portsmouth, England. He died on June 9 1870.
He is the second of 8 children, and when he was 10 years old he saw his father arrested. Charles has produced some of the most memoral books like, “A Christmas carol”, “Sketches by boz”, “ A tale of 2 cities”, “Oliver Twist”, David Cooperfield”, “Great expectations” and “The Pickwick paper”.
Before he died he was writing a book called “The mystery of Edwin Drood”, when Charles died he left it unfinished. He was the most famous novelist in the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all the time.
Nicholas Nickleby Novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 20 monthly installments by "Boz" from 1838 to 1839 and published in book form in 1839. An early novel, this melodramatic tale of young Nickleby’s adventures as he struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England resembles The Pickwick Papers in structure, although not always in tone.
His father John Dickens (d. 1851), a clerk in the navy-pay office on a salary of £80 a year, and stationed for the time being at Portsmouth, had married in 1809 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Barrow.
In the winter of 1814 the family moved from Portsea in the snow, as he remembered, to London, and lodged for a time near the Middlesex hospital. The country of the novelists childhood, however, was the kingdom of Kent where the family was established in proximity to the dockyard.
He looked upon himself in later years as a man of Kent, and his capital abode as that in Ordnance Terrace, or 18 St Mary’s Place, Chatham, amid surroundings classified in Mr. Pickwick’s notes as “ appearing “to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers and dockyard men.
his mother taught him to read to his father he appeared very early in the light of a young prodigy, and him Charles was made to sit on a tall chair and warble popular ballads, or even to tell stories and anecdotes for the benefit of fellow-clerks in the office.
John dickens, his father, however, had a small collection of books which were kept in a little room upstairs that lead out of Charles’s own.
The story of how he played at the characters in these books and sustained his idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch is picturesquely told in David Copperfield. Here as well as in his first and last books and in what many regard as his best, Great Expectations, Dickens returns with unabated fondness and mastery to the surroundings of his childhood.
From seven to nine years he was at a school kept in Clover Lane, Chatham, by a Baptist minister named William Giles, who gave him Goldsmith’s Bee as a keepsake when the call to Somerset House necessitated the removal of the family from Rochester to a shabby house in Bayham Street, Camden Town.