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Birth
He born the 7 of febrer of 1812 in Portsmouth, England -
Started her darkest year
His father, John Dickens was arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison. The family needed money and sent Charles to work in Warren's Blacking Factory pasting labels on shoe polish containers to provide for the family -
Her first novel
Dickens begins monthly installments of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. The novel becomes a publishing phenomenon, -
Her first son
Charles Culliford Boz Dickens is born—the first of his 10 children. He begins publishing monthly installments of Oliver Twist. The book, beloved by factory workers and Queen Victoria unlike, make Dickens one of the most popular writers of his times. -
Process of The Christmas Carol
During a evening walk after a fundraiser for the Manchester Athenaeum, Dickens begins to hatch the idea for a new novel.
Dickens works furiously on A Christmas Carol. He tells a friend that he composes much of it walking “the black streets of London.
He hires John Leech to create the illustrations for his book and works with him to realize his vision of the story. -
A Christmas Carol
Charles finally published her book "A Christmas Carol".
The first printing of 6,000 volumes sells out. The book goes into a second and third printing. -
Her books
Dickens begins giving a series of very popular public readings of A Christmas Carol, he published 4 books more, the last was at the age he dead. -
Dies
Charles Dickens dies frome a stroke
