Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 at Lamport, Portsmouth, being the second of the eight children of John Dickens, a clerk in the Naval Pay Office.
John Dickens' work took him from place to place, so that Charles spent his childhood in Portsmouth, London and Chatham. In 1823 the family moved to London, faced with financial disaster. To help his family, Charles began to work before he was twelve.
His first work, "Sketches by Boz", appeared in magazines soon after he was twenty-one, and in a volume after three years. In 1834 Dickens joined the reporting staff of the "Morning Chronicle".
All the years between 1837 ("The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club") and 1865 ("Our Mutual Friend") were intensely creative for the author of twelve of the best known novels in English literature: "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"(1837), "Oliver Twist"(1838), "Nicholas Nickleby"(1838-1839), "Martin Chuzzlewit"(1843-1844), "Dombey and Son"(1846-1848), "David Copperfield"(1849-1850), "Bleak House"(1852-1853), "Hard Times"(1854), "Little Dorrit"(1855-1857), "Great Expectation"(1860-1861), and "Our Mutual Friend"(1864-1865).
Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, after he had suffered a stroke at the end of a full day's work.
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