Charles Dickens aniversario 2012

2. Dickens’ Biography
• Born February 7, 1812
• 1824 -- Dickens worked at Warren’s
Blacking Warehouse
• 1824 -- Mr. Dickens (Charles’ father) taken
to debtors’ prison; family joins him
• Imprisoned from February - May

3. More Bio
• 1827 - Dickens family evicted from home
for not paying rent
• Charles is pulled out of private school
• Charles, now 15, becomes law clerk and
free-lance writer
• 1834 - Charles takes Boz as pen name
• 1834 - Charles’ Dad re-arrested for debts

4. Dickens starts Publishing!
• 1836 -- Sketches by Boz
• 1837 -- The Pickwick Papers
• and on a personal note...

5. “Here Comes the Bride…”
• 1836 (Dickens is 24)
he and Catherine
Hogarth get married
• and…one year later,
the first “little Dickens”
is born
• and one year after
that, baby number 2
is born...

6. but, back to business!
• 1837-- Oliver Twist is serially published

7. What was happening in 1837?
• King William IV of England dies
• Victoria becomes queen of England

8. In the sciences
• Wheatstone and Cooke patent electric
telegraph
• Samuel Morse exhibits his electric
telegraph

9. And then:
• 1838 -- Nicholas Nickleby
• 1840 -- The Old Curiosity Shop
• 1841 -- Barnaby Rudge
• 1842 -- American Notes

10. • 1843 -- A Christmas Carol
• 1844 -- Martin Chuzzlewit
• 1844 -- The Chimes
• 1845 -- The Cricket on the Hearth
• 1846 -- The Battle of Life
• 1846 -- Dombey and Son

11. And so it goes...
• 1850 -- David Copperfield
• 1853 -- Bleak House
• 1854 -- Hard Times
• 1857 -- Little Dorrit

12. Is he done yet?
• 1859 -- A Tale of Two Cities
• 1861 -- Great Expectations
• 1865 -- Our Mutual Friends
• 1869 -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

13. What’s the Point?
• Dickens wrote 15
major novels in a
career spanning 33
years.
• His peak of creativity
was in mid - late
career from 1848 -
1865.

14. And in the meantime
• He fathered 10
children.
• His wife left him (in
1856).
• He gave numerous
talks across Europe
and in America.
• He developed heart
trouble.

15. His social conscience:
• He fought for children’s rights and he
advocated for child labour laws.
• He opposed cruelty, deprivation, and
corporal punishment of children.
• He believed in and campaigned for just
treatment of criminals.

16. A sad ending
In 1870 Dickens, who had been ill since
1866, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is
buried in the Poets’ Corner in Westminster
Abbey in London.

17. Dickens’ epitaph:
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18. Dickens’ Belief:
“To be thoroughly
earnest is everything,
and to be anything
short of it is nothing.”
“Ser profundamente
honesto lo es todo, y
ser menos que eso es
nada.”

19. THE END