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Charles Dickens was born on February 7 of 1812. Charles Dickens had a difficult family life when he was young, due to his father's imprisonment for debt. The rest of Charles' family (his 6 younger siblings, 1 older brother, and mother) went with him. Charles worked at a shoe factory to help support his family. Charles Dickens lived in a boarding house, and visited his family every Sunday. This experience had an enormous influence on him. Charles had a happy life before his father was in prison, but had been very dark when his father was in prison. These experiences influenced him write Oliver Twist in his later years.

Once Charles Dickens dad had got out of jail, he sent Charles to Wellington House Academy in London as a day pupil. Charles Dickens had to leave after 3 years, because his family was evicted from their home (due to unpaid rent). Charles Dickens had then started to work off jobs such as, a clerk at a law office, a stenographer, a journalist, and a cartoonist.


In 1833, at the age of 21, Charles Dickens had his first short story, and some of his sketches published in a magazine. 3 years later, at the age of 24, his first book was published (a collection of stories). The same year, he had married Catherine Hogarth, who was the daughter of the editor of the "Evening Chronicle." Once married, they traveled, and he started his own weekly journal, acted a bit, and published a number of books, including the famous "David Copperfield." Charles dickens had then later fell in love with another woman in 1857. Charles Dickens had then eventually left his wife to marry this woman.

In the mid-1860's, Charles Dickens had gave a number of readings across the world. Charles Dickens had visited America twice, the first time he hated it; the second time, he fell in love with it.
His adult life may have been stable in many ways, but his father was arrested again, and his family constantly turned to him for financial help. Charles Dickens had then died in June 9th 1870 due to a stroke, after a days writing of his unfinished novel Our Mutual Friend

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