Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812. He lived in Portsmouth until he was a three years, after that his family and him moved to London in 1815. When Charles was young he thought of himself "as very small and not taken care as well as some people was". Charles spent a lot of time outside in the fresh air when he was younger, as well as he use to read picaresque novels by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. His father sent him to William Giless's school for a couple of years, with the money from working in the Navy. <?
John Dickens, Charles' father, was imprisoned at the Marshal Sea debtor’s prison in London. Shortly after this the rest of Charles ‘family joined John in prison except from Charles. Charles was took out of school and took to work in Warren's blacking Factory. He was so lonely with despair, but after coping with the horror for three years he was put back into his school where he could learn, relax and have fun.
As many authors Charles started as a journalist. He began with the journals 'The Mirror of parliament' and 'The True Sun’. Then in 1833 he became a parliamentary journalist for the Morning Chronicle. He married a lovely lady in April 1836, called Catherine Hogarth; she was daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Boz'. In that very same monthcame the publicion of highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and after that point there were no looking back for Dickens. He continued to edit journals throughout the rest of his life.
Charles in 1836 accepted a job from a editor Bentley's Miscellany. He did this job for a short three years, until Charles fell out with the owner. His success continued when he produced Oliver Twist (1837-9), then he did Nicholas Nickleby (1838–9), The Old Curiosity Shop and, finally, Barnaby Rudge- A Tale of the riots of Eighty as part of the Master Humphrey's Clock series (1840–41). They were all published monthly, before being made into books.
On the 2nd April 1836 he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth; she was the daughter of George Hogarth. After they went on a short but happy honeymoon in Chalk in Kent, they both set up a family home in Bloomsbury. Charles and Catherine had ten children there. All of his ten adorable children were called;
1. Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
2. Mary Dickens
3. Kate Macready Dickens
4. Walter Landor Dickens
5. Francis Jeffrey Dickens
6. Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
7. Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens
8. Sir Henry Fielding Dickens
9. Dora Annie Dickens
10. Edward Dickens
Charles and his family moved into 48 Doughty Street in London. In 1842 Charles and his wife made their first trip to the United States of America and Canada, they described the journey as successful because he supported the abolition of Slavery.
In 1856, Charles bought a house in Kent because of his writing income, as a young boy he wished of living in the luminous palace in front of his eyes, and his wish had come true now. This area in Kent was some of the scenes in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, part one. Charles in 1857 hired a professional actresses for the play the Frozen Deep, Dickens and his friend Wikie Collins had written. Charles sadly separated away from his wife in 1858, he divorced her.
In early September 1860 Charles made a huge bonfire and burned lets of letters and only business matters were spared. Ellen Ternan burned all of his letters as well as Charles. On the 9th of June Charles returned from Paris with Ternan, Charles was involved in the Stable Rail crash. The first seven carriages of the train plunged off the cast iron bridge under repair. The only track to remain on the track was the first class carriages this carriage was were Charles and his son was on. Charles tried to help the worded before the rescuers arrived.
On the 8th June 1870, Charles suffered from another stroke at his home after he got home from work. Then on the 9th June he died at Gad's Hill Place.
