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Charles Dickens

  • Birth

    Born at Landport, a suburb of Portsmouth to Elizabeth and John Dickens, a clerk in the navy pay-office at the dockyard.
  • Period: to

    CHARLES DICKENS

  • Arrested Father

    Father arrested for debt and sent to Marshalsea prison, where family joins him, except for Charles, who has been put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory at Hungerford Market.
  • School

    Removed from school and sent to an attorney as an office boy.
  • Falls in love

    Falls in love
    Meets Maria Beadnell and falls madly in love.
  • Theatrical audition

    Requested a theatrical audition, and was accepted.
  • absence

    Was taken ill and could not keep his theatrical audition "was laid up ... with a terrible bad cold and an inflammation of the face. He commented years later how near he may have been to another sort of life."
  • Love ends

    His love affair with Maria Beadnell ends
  • His first published story

    His first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears in Monthly Magazine.
  • Wedding

    Weds Catherine Thomson Hogarth
  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist was published by Richard Bentley
  • Christmas Carol

    Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol is published.
  • The hunted man

    The hunted man
    Begins writing The Haunted Man.
  • Performed for the queen

    The Frozen Deep is performed for the Queen by his theatre company.
  • Falls in love again

    Falls in love with a young actress named Ellen Ternan
  • Separetes

    Separates from his wife Catherine
  • His health fails

    His health begins to fail.
  • the accident

    He and Ellen Ternan are involved in a railway accident at Staplehurst.
  • The last novel

    The last novel
    Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
  • His last novel

    Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Death

    Dies at 6:10 PM.