Charles Dickens

  • Move

    Move
    he moved to Chatham when he was 5 years old
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    School

    He went to school
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    First job

    As a teenager, she spent her time working as an assistant lawyer, frequenting British Museum libraries, learning shorthand, and eventually writing the Morning Chronicle
  • reaching fame

    reaching fame
    Thanks to the works that he was publishing, Dickens was gaining prestige. He was decorated as an adopted son of the city of Edinburgh and traveled to the United States of America where he was most welcomed.
  • Household words foundament

    Household words foundament
    in 1850 he founded Household Words
  • Bad situation

    Bad situation
    By 1850 Dickens's health had worsened, compounded by the death of his father, daughter and sister.
  • The finally triumph

    The finally triumph
    He toured the United States of America in 1867, and in 1870 saw the first monthly installment of a novel that would never be completed: The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
  • Death

    Death
    On June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke at home, after a day's work at Edwin Drood. The next day, June 9, five years after the train accident in Staplehurst