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CHARLES DICKENS Your name and date
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Famouse Author Charles Dickens is a probably the most famous author in england in the english language
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Why is he so famous? He wrote adout the ordinary people and the difficult liv he wrote his stories in exciting chapters so people looked forward to the next chapter.
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brirth Charles dickens was born in portsmouth in february 1812
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School He only went to school he went for a short period as his father was regularly in the Dobtor,s prison
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Journalist As charles could read and write he became a journalist for a newspaper. Newspaper were becoming popuar at this time
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1836 marriage He marride catherine hogarth in 1836. they were to have 10 children
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books Oliver twist great expectations / a christmas carol pickwick papers /a tale of two cirties
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Famouse characters Some of the characters that characters Dickens created are famouse even today in the english language
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Famouse characters srooge= mean miser fagin = fence for thieves Mr bumble = cruel orphanage head pip = a kind thoughtful boy mrs. Gargary = cruel stepmother bill sykes = evil thief Dodger = young pickpocket
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other writinings Dickens wrote many books and other articles for newspapers etc.
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Plan He would put one chapter per week into the newspaper so that people would but the newpaper each week to see what happened next.
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Speeches Charles went to America to make speeches against slavery.
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DEATH He died in 1858 aged 46 and is one of the famous people buried in Westminster abbey in london.
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