1. Charles Dickens
By Henry Perrottet

2. Who is Charles
Dickens?
Charles John Huffam Dickens is one of
the most famous English novelists of
the Victorian period.

3. When did he live?
Dickens was born at No. 1 Mile End
Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England on
Friday, February 7th, 1812
He died at Poet’s Corner, Westminster
Abbey, London on Thursday, 18th June,
1870
His parents were John Dickens(1785-1851)
being his Father and Elizabeth Dickens
(1789-1836)

4. When did Dickens
write all his books?
Sketches by Boz (1836) David Copperfield (1849-50)
Pickwick Papers (1836-37) Bleak House (1852-53)
Oliver Twist (1837-39) Hard Times (1854)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) Little Dorrit (1855-57)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Barnaby Rudge (1841) Great Expectations (1860-61)
Christmas Carol (1843) Our Mutual Friend (1864-65)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) The Mystery of Edwin Drood -
unfinished (1870)
Dombey and Son (1846-48)

5. Where did Charles
live?
After he was born his family moved to Norfolk
Street, Bloomsbury, until he was Four, soon
after that the Dickens moved to Chatham, Kent.
He was there until he was 11. They moved to
Camden Town, London because of Financial
difficulties they were having. John Dickens
was imprisoned in Marshelsea Debtor’s Prison
in Southwark, London in 1824. Elizabeth
Dickens and their youngest child joined him
soon after. Charles Dickens at the age of 12
he was boarded with an old friend.

6. What did Dickens do?
Charles Dickens was a english novelist
and social critic Apart from writing
books Charles Dickens worked in a
warehouse that handled shoe polish
when he was 12 after his father was
jailed. He also worked as a office boy
at an attorney, a shorthand reporter
in the courts and later as
parliamentary and newspaper reporter.

7. How did he become
famous?
Dickens became a reporter at
Parliament and then published the
Pickwick Papers in a chapter or part
of a literary work presented serially
before it appeared in book form.
Sketches by Boz followed and as new
novels appeared Dickens became a well-
loved author on both sides of the
Atlantic.

8. Why is he so famous?
Reading a novel by Charles Dickens was an
essential part of schooling. Either the abridged
versions such as the Christmas tale of Uncle
Scrooge in early classes or full fledged novels
like Great Expectations or Hard Times at the
intermediate levels, the English literature
syllabus in most schools meant you had to read
Dickens at some point.
Today the average Dickensian novel might appear to be
an anachronism but the works of the great author
helped provide an important insight into what early
industrialisation marked for Britain.

9. Bibliography
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
http://charlesdickenspage.com/fast-
facts.html
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/
dickens/
http://www.firstpost.com/living/why-
charles-dickens-is-still-relevant-on-
his-200th-birthday-205627.html