1. Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

2. Works Most began as collections in magazines Oliver Twist
Serialized Installments
Episodes released days apart
Leaves the audience with “great expectations
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield

3. Life 1812-1870 Victorian Era Author Wrote several acclaimed novels
Remarkable Characters
Tackled Social and Moral Values

4. Life Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Father was a clerk-relatively poor
7 siblings
Father, John Dickens was imprisoned for debts
Charles worked at a shoe blackening factory
Mother, Elizabeth, made him continue to work even after his father was released
Attended Wellington House Academy