Charles Dickens
Author's Bio (see also Wikipedia)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was uniquely successful as a writer during his lifetime, enjoying huge followings from readers and audiences in England and America. When, early in life, sudden misfortune sent his family into extreme poverty, the young Charles was sent to work in a factory. Never forgetting this childhood misery, Dickens wrote often in later life about the plights of the working poor. As a young man he became a law clerk and stenographer, moving into journalism in the 1830s. Dickens's early journalistic sketches formed the basis for his first literary works. With the 1836 serialized publication of The Pickwick Papers, his unparalleled success as an author began. Dickens went on to write such famous novels as David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, and Bleak House, with all of his works remaining in print to this day.
Discussions about Charles Dickens
Edwin Drood Musical in London
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Little Dorrit: ABC TV, 27 June 2010, 8:35 p.m.
Tonight I watched the first of a new mini-series Little Dorrit. It was screened in the U.K. in ...
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