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Charles Dickens was a famous English writer born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels and hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles. Dickens was considered the 'literary colossus' of his time and was praised by fellow writers like Tolstoy and Chesterton for his realism, comedy, prose style, and social criticism. However, some like Wilde, James and Woolf criticized his writing for lacking psychological depth and having loose writing and sentimentality. Dickens addressed major themes of injustice and poor living conditions of the working class in his works, drawing on his own difficult childhood experiences.

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Charles Dickens was a famous English writer born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels and hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles. Dickens was considered the 'literary colossus' of his time and was praised by fellow writers like Tolstoy and Chesterton for his realism, comedy, prose style, and social criticism. However, some like Wilde, James and Woolf criticized his writing for lacking psychological depth and having loose writing and sentimentality. Dickens addressed major themes of injustice and poor living conditions of the working class in his works, drawing on his own difficult childhood experiences.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (

/trlz dknz/; 7 February 1812 9 June 1870)

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, in Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Born in Portsmouth, England He edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels and hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles celebrated for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society Dickens was regarded as the 'literary colossus' of his age His creative genius has been praised by fellow writersfrom Leo Tolstoy to G. K. Chesterton and George Orwellfor its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism.

On the other hand Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. Righteous anger stemming from his own situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works. It was this unhappy period in his youth to which he alluded in his favourite, and most autobiographical, novel, David Copperfield. In 1830, Dickens met his first love, Maria Beadnell, thought to have been the model for the character Dora in David Copperfield. On 2 April 1836, after a one year engagement during which he wrote The Pickwick Papers, he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (18161879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle.

Oliver Twist, published in 1838 was the first Victorian with a child protagonist. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written

Works First novel:


The Pickwick Papers (1837)

The Adventures of Oliver Twist 1837 (in three volumes)


A Tale of Two Cities 1859 Great Expectations 1861 (in three volumes) Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 186465) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens (1865)

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