Real Name: Charles John Huffam DickensD.O.B: 7 February 1812

Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, EnglandDeath: 9 June 1870 (aged 58)

Gad's Hill Place, Higham,Kent, England

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was the 2nd of 8 children to John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth

Dickens (1789–1863.) After his birth his family moved to

Norfolk Street, Bloomsbury.

Early Years

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Birth Place

Second house

Third house

In late November, 1851, Dickens moved into Tavistock House, where

he wrote Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1856). During this period he worked closely

with a novelist and a playwright, Wilkie Collins. In 1857, Dickens hired a

professional actresses for the play, The Frozen Deep, which he and his protégé, Wilkie Collins had written.

Middle Years

Fourth House

9th June 1865: While returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in

a rail crash. The first seven carriages of the train plunged off a cast ironbridge that was under repair. The only first class carriage to remain on the track was the one in which

Dickens was travelling in.

Last Years

8th June 1870: Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work

at Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, 9th June,

he died at Gad's Hill Place. Last Words: “On the ground”  in response

to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he must lie down.

Death

He worked in a shoe polish factory and was a freelance reporter. But his favourite one is his paying job, (an

author.)

Job

Britain in 1800 had changed little in centuries. It was a rural country. For most of the people, the world was restricted to

their village - where their family had probably lived for generations. But all that was about to change though the

steam engine was first invented in 1769 by James Watt.

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