Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England, and grew up mainly in Kent and London. When he was twelve his father was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea prison, and Charles was sent to work in a factory pasting labels on pots of boot polish, an experience he never forgot. He later worked as a law clerk and as a shorthand reporter in Parliament. His sketches of London life and The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837) made him famous while still in his twenties. Most of his novels first appeared in monthly or weekly parts, including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, which draws on his own youth, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. They portray the poor, debtors' prisons, schools and courts of Victorian England with humor and memorable characters. Dickens also edited magazines, supported charities, and gave popular public readings in Britain and America. He died at his home, Gad's Hill Place in Kent, in 1870 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Faith: Critical of some forms of organised religion; he wrote The Life of Our Lord (1846) to share his Christian faith with his children. Source: Wikipedia