CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS WORKS Karin Salupuu 11.B

Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 The most popular novelist of the Victorian period Father briefly worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office Education : William Giles's School Wellington House Academy Mr. Dawson's school

Had to work in a blakcing factory at the age of 12 On 2 April 1836 married Catherine Thomson Hogarth 10 children Had affaires with other women Separated from his wife in 1858 Died at Gad’s Hill Place in 1870 (stroke)

Catherine Thomson Hogarth

Career Warren's Blacking Warehouse Junior clerk at a law office (1827-1828) A freelance reporter 1833 first story A Dinner at Poplar Walk Election campaignes for the Morning Chronicle 1836 Sketches by Boz 1836 first novel The Pickwick Papers Contributed and edited journals

Dickens’s Works Realistic Unique characters Mastery of prose attacks on social evils injustice hypocrisy

Examples of works (other than novels) Short story collections: Sketches by Boz The Mudfog Papers Short stories to Christmas numbers of magazines Houshold Words (1851-58) All the Year Round (1859-67) Travelogues: American Notes: For General Circulation Pictures from Italy

Poetry: The Fine Old English Gentleman Plays The Village Coquettes The Frozen Deep

Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_dickens http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/ Pictures: http://www.google.com

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