Charles Dickens
1812 CE–1870 CE · Novelist · Landport, Portsmouth
Charles Dickens was an English novelist and social commentator whose serialized fiction reached a mass Victorian readership. Born in Portsmouth in 1812, he spent much of his childhood in Kent and London, and briefly left school to work in a blacking warehouse after his father was imprisoned for debt. He began as a parliamentary reporter before publishing "The Pickwick Papers." His novels—among them "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," "Bleak House," "A Tale of Two Cities," and "Great Expectations"—combined comedy, melodrama, and portraits of poverty and institutional failure. A prolific editor and celebrated public reader, he toured Britain and the United States. He died at Gad's Hill Place, Kent, in 1870.
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