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Charles Dickens

By auguoliva

  • Charles Dickens was born

    Charles Dickens was born
    He was born at Portsmouth, England, with Johm and Elizabeth Dickens his perents.
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    Charles Dickens

  • Childhood

    Childhood
    John Dickens was arrested and sent to the Marshalsea prison. Charles Dickens worked at the Warren's Blacking Factory, while his father was in prision his family moved near the prision and left Charles alone.

  • Return to school

    Return to school
    Charles returned to school when his father received an inheritance and was able to repay his debts.

  • Leaving school

    Leaving school
    He was forced to leave school and work as an office boy. In the following year he bacame a freelance reporter and stenographer, using shorthand to transcribe documents.

  • First love

    First love
    Dickens meets Maria Beadnell, his first love interest.

  • First Impression

    First Impression
    He had become a reporter for two London newspaper and, in the following year, began to contribute a series of impressions and sketches to other newspapers and magazines, signing some of them ´´Boz´´.

  • First book

    First book
    These scenes of London life wnt far to establish his reputation and were published in 1836 as sketches by Boz, his first book.

  • Best times

    Best times
    So great was Dickens´s success with the precedure That Pickwick became one of the most popular works of the times, and continued to be so after it was published in book form.

  • The Publications

    Publication of The Old Curiosity Shop begins

  • The Publications

    Barnaby Rudge is published.

  • The Publications

    Late in 1842 or early in the next year Dickens begins work on Martin Chuzzlewit.

  • The Publications

    A Christmas Carol is published.

  • The Publications

    Publication of Dombey and Son begins.

  • The publications

    The Haunted Man, his last Christmas book is published.

  • The Publications

    The publication of Bleak House begins

  • The Publications

    Hard Times is published.

  • The Publications

    A Tale of Two Cities is published.

  • The Publications

    Publication of Great Expectations begins in All the Year Round.

  • The Publications

    Dickens begins work on Our Mutual Friend.

  • The Publications

    Dickens is ordered by doctors to discontinue readings. Dickens begins writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

  • The Final

    Dickens gives his final public reading. Publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins. Charles Dickens dies at Gad's Hill Place on June 9.