Charles (John Huffam) *censored*ens born at Portsea near Portsmouth on 7th February 1812.

Dickens had some schooling, but his real education was the streets of London. All the best scenes in his later novels deal with London Characters.

Dickens appealed to social consciousness to overcome social misery. His immense popularity gave importance to his attacks on the abuses of the law - courts and schools who object was not the education of the children but the enrichment of the proprietors

was sweeping the country.. It was the Industrial Revolution.

England witnessed riots. Workers felt their jobs were threatened by the widening introduction of machinery. Groups of unemployed men set about destroying machines and in their way created havoc and chaos.

The movement was called the Luddite movement..

In Victorian times, there was an alarming contrast between rich and poor. whilst the owners of the industries were prosperous - the workers were poorly fed and poorly housed. Their working conditions, whether in factories or mines, were appalling. even women and children could be expected to work up to fifteen hours a day, for six days a week.

In Nicholas Nickelby, he told of schools where boys were ill treated and half starved, and his account of Dotherboys Hall helped to close such many schools., the dehumanizing effect of business ethics' Dombey & Son, the outdated legal system 'Dombey & Son"

Dr Anette is released just before the outbreak of the revolution and goes to England to join his daughter, Lucia - the son of the younger Marquis St. Evremonde, living in England renounced his title and has taken the name of Charles Darnay.. He marry's Lucia but returns to France on the outbreak of the revolution to bring about the release of Old Faithful servant.

Dickens had personal experiences of childhood abuse, and because he wanted to make the world a better place for the poor and the weak and the lonely, his novels are full of graphic descriptions of these people and their lives. His novels are social commentaries on certain aspects of life in England

It was a frightening place where young and old alike ran wildly through the streets in the name of freedom.

Great expectations is rich in physical settings, from the blacksmith's cottage where Pip grew up, to the eccentricities of Satis House where Pip learned to despise his simple background, the grim despair of Newgate prison, dominating all others are the marshes, often bleak and savage raw, and only sometimes gentle and tranquil.

Throughout hard Times Dickens refers to the workers as 'Hands', men and women who are only important to their masters because they can mange machines. Dickens says they have lost any sense of the importance and value of the individual.:

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