Charles Dickens Research Paper
bio A biography of Charles Dickens By: Keshav puri Stationed for the time being at Portsmouth, had married in 1809 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Barrow, and she bore him a family of eight children, Charles being the second. 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 Charles Dickens (1812—1870) was a prolific 19th century author of short stories, plays, novellas, novels, fiction and non, during his lifetime Dickens became known for his remarkable characters, his mastery of prose in telling of their lives, and his depictions of the social classes and values of his times. Some considered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight, the downtrodden and the have-nots. He had a fair amount of critics but still has many admirers, even into the 21st Century.
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DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812—1870), English novelist, was born on the 7th of February 1812 at a house in the Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Landport (Portsea).
His father John Dickens (d. 1851), a clerk in the navy-pay office on a salary of £80 a year, and Middlesex hospital. The country of the novelist’s childhood, however, was the kingdom of Kent, where the family was established in proximity to the dockyard at Chatham from 1816 to 1821.
These years as a journalist left Dickens with lasting affection for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through their own words. Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays to appeared in periodical. His SKETCHES BY BOZ and THE PICKWICK PAPERS were published in 1836; he married in the same year the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogart. However, some people suspected that he was more fond of her sister, Mary, who moved into their house and died in
1837.
Dickens began writing Our Mutual Friend in 1864, until November 1865, a time where Dickens was in poor health, due largely to overwork. Also, a railway accident had just occurred upon Dickens and Ellen Ternan's returning from a Paris holiday. A number of people were injured and Dickens was himself greatly disturbed, both psychologically and physically. Death struck the great novelist Charles Dickens at work, when, after a full day on Edwin Drood, he suffered a mild stroke in June 1870.
DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812—1870), English novelist, was born on the 7th of February 1812 at a house in the Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Landport (Portsea).
His father John Dickens (d. 1851), a clerk in the navy-pay office on a salary of £80 a year, and Middlesex hospital. The country of the novelist’s childhood, however, was the kingdom of Kent, where the family was established in proximity to the dockyard at Chatham from 1816 to 1821.
These years as a journalist left Dickens with lasting affection for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through their own words. Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays to appeared in periodical. His SKETCHES BY BOZ and THE PICKWICK PAPERS were published in 1836; he married in the same year the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogart. However, some people suspected that he was more fond of her sister, Mary, who moved into their house and died in
1837.
Dickens began writing Our Mutual Friend in 1864, until November 1865, a time where Dickens was in poor health, due largely to overwork. Also, a railway accident had just occurred upon Dickens and Ellen Ternan's returning from a Paris holiday. A number of people were injured and Dickens was himself greatly disturbed, both psychologically and physically. Death struck the great novelist Charles Dickens at work, when, after a full day on Edwin Drood, he suffered a mild stroke in June 1870.