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Charles Dickens was born at Landport, near Portsmouth, England, Feb. 7, 1812 and died at Gadshill, near Rochester, England, June 9, 1870. Dickens was a celebrated English novelist. He was the son of John Dickens, who served as a clerk in the navy pay office and afterward became a newspaper reporter. He received an elementary education in private schools served for a time as an attorney's clerk, and in 1835 became reporter for the “London Morning Chronicle.”
In 1833 Dickens published in the “Monthly Magazine” his first story entitled “ A Dinner at Poplar Walk,” which proved to be the beginning of a series of papers printed collectively as “Sketches by Boz”. In 1836. He married Catherine daughter of George Hogarth, in 1836. In 1836-37 he published the “Pickwick Papers,” by which his literary reputation was established. He became editor of “Household Words” in 1849, and of “All the Year Round" in 1859, and visited America in 1842 and 1867
His chief works are “Pickwick Papers” (1837), “Oliver Twist” (1838), “Nicholas Nickleby” (1838-39), “Master Humphrey's Clock ” (including “ Old Curiosity Shop” and “Barnaby Rudge,” 1840-41), “American Notes”(1842), “Christmas Carol” (1843), “Martin Chuzzlewit” (1843-44), “ Chimes ” (1844), “ Cricket on the Hearth ”(1845), “Dormbey and Son” (1846-48), “David Copperfield” (1849-50), “Bleak House” (1852-53), “Hard Times” (1854), “little
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