Charles Dickens
February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870
English novelist whose works, such as Oliver Twist and Bleak House, depicted life and poverty in Victorian Britain.
Biography
Charles Dickens was an English novelist. As a boy he worked in a blacking factory while his father was in a debtors' prison, an experience that shaped his concern for the poor.
He became famous with The Pickwick Papers (1836) and went on to write Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations and many other novels, most first published in instalments. His vivid characters and attacks on poverty, child labour and institutional cruelty made him the most popular writer of the Victorian era.
Affiliations
Employment
- The Morning Chronicle Political journalist and parliamentary reporter
