Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Date of Birth: Friday, February 7, 1812 Place of Birth: No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England Parents: Father-John Dickens ( ); Mother- Elizabeth Dickens ( ) Parents:
Education: Approx. one year at William Giles' school in Chatham, Kent (age 9-11); nearly three years Wellington House Academy in London (age 13-15); beyond this, largely self-educated. First Published Story: A Dinner at Poplar Walk published in Monthly Magazine (December 1833) A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Marriage: Catherine (Hogarth) Dickens ( ) : married April 2, 1836 in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea : Separated 1858 Marriage: Children Charles Culliford (Charley) Dickens ( )Mary (Mamie) Dickens ( )Kate Macready (Katie) Dickens ( )Walter Savage Landor Dickens ( )Francis Jeffrey (Frank) Dickens ( )Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ( )Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens ( ) Henry Fielding (Harry) Dickens ( )Dora Annie Dickens ( )Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn) Dickens ( ) Children
Date of Death: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke) Place of Burial: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, London Place of Burial: A Defining Episode in Dickens' Life The episode in Dickens' childhood when his father was imprisoned for debt and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory to help support the family is absolutely essential in knowing and understanding Dickens. This episode seemed to put a stain on the clever, sensitive boy that colored everything he accomplished, though he never told the story except obliquely through his fiction.
Major Works Sketches by Boz (1836)Pickwick Papers (serialized monthly )Oliver Twist (serialized monthly )Nicholas Nickleby (serialized monthly )The Old Curiosity Shop (serialized weekly )Barnaby Rudge (serialized weekly 1841)Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized monthly )Dombey and Son (serialized monthly )David Copperfield (serialized monthly )Bleak House (serialized monthly )Hard Times (serialized weekly 1854)Little Dorrit (serialized monthly )A Tale of Two Cities (serialized weekly 1859)Great Expectations (serialized weekly )Our Mutual Friend (serialized monthly )The Mystery of Edwin Drood - unfinished (serialized monthly 1870) Sketches by BozPickwick PapersOliver TwistNicholas NicklebyThe Old Curiosity ShopBarnaby RudgeMartin ChuzzlewitDombey and SonDavid CopperfieldBleak HouseHard TimesLittle DorritA Tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsOur Mutual FriendThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Minor Works American Notes (1843)Pictures from Italy (1846)The Life of Our Lord (1846)A Child's History of England (serialized weekly )Reprinted Pieces (1858)The Uncommercial Traveller (1861) American NotesPictures from ItalyThe Life of Our LordA Child's History of England Christmas Books A Christmas Carol (1843)The Chimes (1844)The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)The Battle of Life (1846)The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848) A Christmas CarolThe ChimesThe Cricket on the HearthThe Battle of LifeThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain Weekly Magazines Master Humphrey's Clock ( ) Household Words ( ) All the Year Round ( ) Master Humphrey's ClockHousehold WordsAll the Year Round