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The birth of a soon to be famous writer
In this day the soon to be famous writer,Charles John Huffam Dickens, was born in Portsmouth, England to Elizabeth and John Dickens -
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Charles Dickens Life
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Change of place
He moved to england -
His education
He was taken out of school because they didnt have the money to pay it so he became to work as the person who sticks labels in a shoe factory, at that job they forced him to work 11 hours a day, A few years later he decided that he didnt want to work in a shoe factory so he decided to become a journalist -
Back to School
After working one hard year, he managed to enroll himself at the Wellington House Academy. -
His first job
He became a journalist who wrote about the congress in the news paper of morning Chronicles -
His first Book
The first book that he wrote was The Pickwick Papers which was the one that made him famous. -
His marriage
After a one year engagement during which he wrote his first book ,The Pickwick Papers, he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth, which happened to be the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle which was the place he worked in. -
His Books
This year is when be started making one of his famous books, Oliver Twist, which he finished two years later in 1839.Also this year his first child was born, Charly Dickens -
His Job
He bacame an international literary celebraty because the books that he wrote went getting so famous that almost everybody read them, so insteaded of becoming a journalist he became a writer. -
One of his famous books
This year the book A Christmas Carol was written and published. It talks about an old man who us sell fish expecialy on christmas, so on that night 3 ghost of christmas go visit him and they teach him a lesson. Now a day there are many versons of that story and there is also a movie. -
Another book finished
This year was the one which another well known book was finished and published. The name of the book is Hard Time. -
His last book
He last book he managed to write was Our Mutual Friend, When he finished that book he started working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood but he didnt manage to finish. -
His death
H died beacause he suffered a stroke at the age of 58, most people think that the stroke was caused beacause the night before the worked all night on book and because of that he became week and he died.
Since he was a so well writer and he also made a great part of english literature, there was a statue made after him