Charles John Hotham Dickens was born on
the 7th of February 18 12 to John and
Elizabeth Dickens Charles was the second
child of eight siblings in all six of
whom survived to adulthood John a
neighbor Clarke always spent beyond his
means one day he pointed out a house to
Charles remarking that he could live in
such a house if he worked hard the
family moved to London in 1822 at twelve
as the family finances worsened Charles
had to start work in a blacking factory
labeling bottles for eleven hours a day
John Dickens was eventually sent to a
debtors prison
Charles visited him there every Sunday
his youth left him with an ambitious
Drive in 1827 he began work as a
solicitor's clerk from the surroundings
of his unremarkable office he began to
collect names and characteristics of the
people he saw Charles began a
journalistic career in 1831 writing
became his passion working for the paper
by day and on his own work by night he
was beginning to taste success his first
piece of fiction was published in 1835
that same year Charles met Katherine
Hogarth they fell in love and were
married the next few years of fervent
activity resulted in much writing and
many children as his writing became more
popular and his fame more widespread
rumours began to abound of his
drunkenness and admission to an asylum
stories were easy to concoct about the
writer who kept a pet raven and who
writing dealt in the extremes of the
sentimental are the grotesque in 1842
Charles and Catherine set sail for
America on landing in Boston they were
mobbed by crowds dickens interest lay in
visiting the unusual which inspired his
writing he took his whole family on his
next big trip to Italy in the summer of
1844 upon his return Dickens began to
look for new dye versions
he helped to start and edit a radical
newspaper founded a refuge for homeless
women and performed his works at public
readings aged 44 Charles bought gadshill
the house his father had pointed out to
him all those years before it symbolized
a pinnacle of achievement
whilst Dickens was organizing a
theatrical project the frozen deep he
met and was spellbound by a young
actress Ellen Ternan there is much
speculation about this relationship that
caused the end of his marriage to
Katharine once April 19 1860 sighs
whilst Charles and Ellen were returning
from Paris their train of traction
staple burst Dickens administered brandy
and water to the injured and dying only
at the last minute did you remember to
retrieve the final part of our mutual
friend from the wrecked carriage the
incident left Charles very shaken for a
while he maintained his busy itinerary
then his health began to fail at home on
Wednesday the 9th of June 1870 at the
age of 58 Charles suffered a stroke and
died he's buried in Westminster Abbey
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