Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport,
Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The
second of eight children of a family continually plagued by
debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and
privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’
prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in
the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of
prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the
opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington
House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and
newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836)
and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the
amazing and instant success that was to be his for the
remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of
serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social
commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth
after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his
death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was
characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
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Series
Drop Caps
Books:Great Expectations, December 2012
Drop Cap #5
Hardcover (reprint)
Grave Expectations, September 2011
Paperback
A Tale Of Two Cities And Great Expectations, February 2011
Paperback (reprint)
A Christmas Carol, September 2006
Hardcover
A Tale of Two Cities, June 2005
Audio CD
Little Dorrit, February 2004
Paperback
A Christmas Tale, October 2003
Audio CD
A Christmas Carol, November 1986
Paperback (reprint)
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