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The Beginning
Charlies Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Barrow Dicken. John Dickens was a naval clerk and Elizabeth was a aspiring school teacher. Together they raised Charles, their eldest son, with there other kids.
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John gets arrested
John was sent to prison for debt in 1824, when Charles was just 12 years old. This is the first tragedy in young Charles life and it changes his life. Now Charles has to help support his family and go to school to become a smart well rounded young man.
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Chales becomes a clerk and messanger boy in a lawyers office
This is significant because it is his first real job. Charles at this time learns a lot from spending time with his bosses and other employees. Charles is pulled from his schooling to help support his family.
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Meets Maria Beadnell
From the moment he saw her he fell in love. Dickens says it was love at first sight, too ad their relationship only lasted little less than a year before she said no to his marriage proposal. Dickens was left heart broken and wrote books, poetry and love letters to recover.
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Beginning of his literary career
Charles Dickens began sending stories and descriptive essays to magazines and newspapers. They attracted attention and quickly became very popular. Dickens was invited to provide a comic serial narrative to accompany engravings by a well-known artist and seven weeks later the first installment of The Pickwick Papers appeared. Within a few months Pickwick was the rage and Dickens the most popular author of the day.
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New Job, New Dickens
Charles became a journalist for The Morning Chronicle, with a new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. Within the same month of his wedding came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
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Married Catherine Hogarth
Catherine Hogarth was born in Scotland. In 1834 she and her family moved to England where her father had taken a job as a music critic for the Morning Chronicle were Dickens worked. They met and fell in love, the young couple spent lots of time traveling and quickly got engaged and married. Together they would have 10 children and because of this Charles has a affair and divorces Catherine.
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Dickens work progresses
Dickens writing in these prolific years were remarkably various and, except for his plays, were very resourceful. Pickwick began as high-spirited and had many comic butts and traditional jokes; like other early works, it was set up and like the contemporary theatre style, the 18th-century English novelists, and a few foreign classics, including Don Quixote.
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Dickens travels America
When Dickens would tour different countries his books, and there messages, were spread farther throughout the world. Touring America helped not only Dickens and his family but the readers too. Without touring the Americas, Dickens books may of not have been as popular and as they were and are.
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A Christmas Carol is published
A Christmas Carol was Dickens most well known book ever published, it changed the literature world, and affected many peoples lives. Now A Christmas Carol is known globally and is a very common book and story to tell around the holiday season. This book was by far Dickens most well known and most sold book to this day.
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Dicken Stands Up Against Tax
Dickens asked a friend for more information on the “absurdities and evils” of tax, then wrote “Red Tape" a humorous piece that pokes fun at England’s endless bureaucracy, but it also contained a plea to protect the poor. “A most unnatural per-centage of them,” Dickens wrote in the piece, were “consumptive, and always sliding downward into Pauperism” due to the tax. Dickens spoke publicly against the tax. -
Death for Dickens
His wife left him and then he died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
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