the life of charles dickens, a
As a member of one of the lower classes as a child Dickens had dreams of comfortable middle class life, and worked for this goal without forgetting where he came from. Dickens was the first mainstream writer to reach out to the semiliterate class. He did much to make sure his writings were available to the middle class. He published serial novels on monthly bases. One shilling (one twentieth of a pound) would buy you the next installment to your novel. In a time when novels were almost thirty times as much as one of these serial novels, it put reading within the reach of the middle class, thus highly popularizing Charles Dickens' works. By the popularity of his work he was able to afford a humble middle class life, which was what he always desired. Charles Dickens, like most authors of fiction, included characters in his writings that reflect aspects of his own life. Dickens has certain staple characteristics that are included in the majority of his stories that are derived from Dickens' family, friends, and even himself. Charles Dickens was one of the literary geniuses of the 19th century. Charles Dickens did not begin his life as a humble middle class child. In fact it was quite the opposite. He was born in Portsmouth,
During this time he dabbled in amateur theatrical, and had his first short story published. "Street Sketches" was the name of this series of stories about life on the streets of London. They were later collected and placed in a book called sketches by Boz Boz was the pseudonym that Charles Dickens used early in his career. These papers were so popular that Dickens was contracted with George Cruiksahnk, a renowned cartoonist, to write a series of serial publications called The Pickwick Papers. Its success was assured when Charles Dickens invented Sam Weller, a streetwise low life, and paired him with Mr. Pickwick a gentleman and genial man. England in 1812. He was the second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Navy pay office. In 1817 Charles got the first taste of the life he would so strongly desire later in his life. His family moved to Chatham, a small port town in England. Charles enjoyed all the comforts of a humble middle class life, fresh country air, decent schooling, and books to read on sunny afternoons. It was a short idyll, John Dickens money supply was lacking. He was recalled to London and forced to put his family of six in a small, smelly, bleak house in the ugly suburb of Camden town. Then in 1824 an event that shaped Charles Dickens views on the world occurred. His family increasingly in need of money sent their second born child to work in a Warren's Blackening factory. He worked beside ragged urchins, where passerbies could see him working through the window. The factory was a foul, rat infested palace next to the Thames River. Charles was then abandoned by his parents, John Dickens was arrested for debt, and moved himself and his family into the Marshal Sea Prison, except for Charles who was forced to survive on his own on the streets of London. A place where the survival rate of children was only fifty percent, most wouldn't make it to adulthood. Charles proved to be quite adept at surviving for a few months when his father was released thanks to an inheritance, but much to Charles disappointment his mother forced him to remain at the blackening factory. Only after his father retired from the clerk's office and began the profession of free-lance journalism was when Charles sent b
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