Charles Dickens is born the 7 February 1812 at landport and died the 9 June 1870 at Gad’s Hill Place. Charles and his family lived at 48 Doughty Street in London.
Charles wrote lots of books and 12 of them are famous, like:
-The posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (April 1836 to November 1837
-The Adventure of Oliver Twist (February 1837 to April 1839)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (April 1838 to October 1839)
-The Old Curiosity Shop (25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841)
- Bamaby Rudge (13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841)
- A Christmas Carol (1843)
-The Chimes (1844)
-The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
-The Battle of Life (1846)
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
-The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843 to July 1844)
Dickens had a very happy childhood until his father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtor's prison in Southwark, London in 1824. Shortly afterwards, the rest of his family joined him except 12 year old Charles, who boarded with family friend Elizabeth Roylance in Camden Town. Mrs. Roylance was "a reduced old lady, long known to our family", whom Dickens later immortalised, "with a few alterations and embellishments", as "Mrs. Pipchin", in Dombey and Son.
By Laura and Angelique
