CHARLES
DICKENS
A famous victorian author.
FACTS
CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM
DICKENS
BORN:7th February 1812
DIED:9th
June 1870
CHILDHOOD:AS A 12-YEAR OLD
CHILD,CHARLES WAS FORCED
TO LEAVE SCHOOL AND WORK
IN THE BOOT BLACKING
FACTORY EARNING ONLY 6
SHILLINGS A WEEK FOR
PLACE OF BIRTH:
LABELING POTS OF
PORTSMOUTH UK
“BLACKING” A SUBSTANCE
USED TO CLEAN FIREPLACES.
BOOKS
1.GREAT EXPECTATIONS
2.A CHRISMAS CAROL
3.OLIVER TWIST
4.DAVID COPPERFIELD
5.THE PICKWICK PAPERS
6.BLEAK HOUSE
7.HARD TIMES
8.THE LIFE AND ADVETURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
9.LITTLE DORRIT
10.THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
11.OUR MUTAL FRIEND
12.MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
13.DOMBEY AND SON
14.BARNABY RUDGE
15.SKETCHES BY BOZ
16.THE CHIMES
17.THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
18.AMERICAN NOTES
19.THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN
20.THE HAUNTED HOUSE
21.THE BATTLE OF LIFE
22.THE LIFE OF OUR LORD
23.MUGBY JUNCTION
24.PICTURES FROM ITALY
25.A HOUSE TO LET
26.CHRISTMAS STORYS
27.THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID
COPPERFEILED
28.MRS LIRRIPER
29.THE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS
30.CHRISTMAS BOOKS
31.THE ANNOTATED CHRISTMAS CAROL
32.THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN
CHUZZLEWIT
33.THE SPEECHES OF CHARLES DICKENS
34.GEORGE SILVERMAN’S EXPLANATION
35.THE SIGNALMAN
36.DICKENS’ WORKING NOTES FOR HIS NOVELS
37.SELECTED LETTERS OF CHARLES
DICKENS
38.MY EARLY TIMES
39.THE UNCOMMERICAL TRAVELLER
40.THE LAMPLIGHTER
41.A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
42.THE MUDFOG PAPERS
43.MEMOIRSOF JOSEPH GRIMALDI
44.THE COMPLETE GHOST STORIES OF
CHARLES DICKENS
45.THACKERAY THE HUMORIST AND THE
MAN OF LETTERS :THE STORY OF HIS LIFE
AND LITERARY LABOURS,INCLUDING A
SECTION FROM HIS CHARACTERISTIC
FEATURES
46.DICKENS TO HIS OLDEST FRIEND
CHARLES DICKENS AS A ADULT
CHARLES DICKENS MARRIED CATHRINE,
THOMPSON HOGARTH IN APRIL THE 2ND 1836.
CULLIFORD THEY HAD 10 CHILDREN NAMED,
CHARLES OZ DICKENS, MARY DICKENS, KATE
MACREADY, WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, FRANCIS
JEFFREY DICKENS,ALFRED TENNYSON,DORA
ANNIE DICKENS,EDWARD BULWER,SIDNEY
SMITH AND HENRY FIELDING.
SADLY,DORA DIED AT THE AGE OF 8 MONTHS
AND CHARLES’S WIFE HAD A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN.IN 1858,CHARLES AND CATHRINE
SEPEATED.CATHRINE DIED IN 1879.
BESTSELLING BOOKS
THE TOP FIVE BOOKS BY CHARLES DICKENS:
1.GREAT EXPECTATIONS
2.DAVID COPPERFIELD
3.A TALEOF TWO CITIES
4.OLIVER TWIST
5.NICHOLAS NICKELBY
CHARLES DICKENS WAS AN
AUTHOR,BUT NOT ONLY THAT!
1.
HIS BOOKS CHANGED LAW
2.
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO READ OLIVER TWIST COMPLETELY CHANGED
THEIR VIEWS ON WORKHOUSES.
3.
HE MADE PEOPLE HAPPY WHEN THEY READ HIS WONDERFUL BOOKS.
4.
HE HAD A HARD CHILDHOOD,BUT DIDN’T GIVE UP TRYING TO MAKE HIS
FUTURE DREAM HAPPEN!
5.HE TRAVELLED AROUND THE WORLD TO TELL RICH PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE
HIS STORIES.
6.AND FINALLY HE WAS ONE OF THE ONLY VICTORIAN PEOPLE THAT HAD THEIR
NAME TRANSLATED INTO EVERY LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD!!!
THERE ARE LOTS MORE BUT SADLY THERE WASN’T TIME TO WRITE
THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BY LUCY
MARIA
NELSON
&
MAY
MYERS
O’MULLOY
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