The Life of Charles Dickens (BBC)

WORKS

The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837)

Oliver Twist (1837-1839)

Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841)

Barnaby Rudge (1841)

A Christmas Carol (1843) (also known as A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol)

Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)

Dombey and Son (1846-1848)

David Copperfield (1849-1850)

Bleak House (1852-1853)

Hard Times (1854)

Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

The flagman (1866)

Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport district, belonging to the city of Portsmouth, son of John Dickens (1786-1851), clerk of the Paymaster of the Navy in the arsenal of Portsmouth Harbour, and its wife Elizabeet, Camden Town, which was then one of the poorest suburbs of the city. Although his early years seeth Barrow (1789-1863). In 1814, the family moved to London, Somerset House, at number ten on Norfolk Street. When the future writer was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. His mother was middle class and his father always dragged debts due to his excessive inclination to waste. Charles received no education until the age of nine years, which later critics reproached him, considering his training in excess self. At this age, after attending a school in Rome Lane, studied culture in the school of William Gile, an Oxford graduate. He spent his time away from home, reading voraciously. He showed a particular fondness for the picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. This would be his favorite writer. I also read with relish adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. In 1823, he lived with his family in London, at number 16 Bayham Strem to have been an idyllic time, he was described as a "very young child and not particularly care." We also talk about his extreme pathos and his photographic memory of people and events that helped move the reality ficción.3
His life changed when his father was deeply denounced by defaulting on their debts and imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtors prison. Most of the family moved to live with Mr. Dickens to jail, then possibility provided by law, which allowed the family to share his cell delinquent. Charles was welcomed in a house of Little College Street, run by Mrs. Roylance and went on Sunday to visit her father in prison.
At twelve years, it was considered that the future novelist was old enough to start working, and began his working life in workdays of ten hours in Warren's boot-blacking factory, a factory of shoe polish, located near the present Charing Cross railway station in London. During this period his life was pasting labels on bottles of polish shoes (shoe polish), earned six shillings a week. With this money, he had to pay his room and helped the family, most of whom were living with her father, who remained incarcerated.
After a few months, his family was able to leave the Marshalsea prison, but his financial situation did not improve until later, when the death of Charles's maternal grandmother, his father received a legacy of £ 250. Her mother retired immediately Charles Company, which was owned by her relatives. Dickens never forget the efforts of his mother to force him to stay in the factory. These mark his life experiences as a writer devoted much of his work to denounce the deplorable conditions under which survived the proletarian classes. In his novel David Copperfield, judged as the most autobiographical, wrote: "I received no counseling, no support, no stimulants, no consolation, no assistance of any kind, from anyone who might remember me. Much wanted to go to heaven! ".