Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Date of Birth: Friday, February 7, 1812 Place of Birth: No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England Parents: Father-John Dickens (1785-1851); Mother-Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863) Education: Approx. one year at William Giles school in Chatham, Kent (age 9-11); nearly three years Wellington House Academy in London (age 13-15); beyond this, largely self-educated. First Published Story: A Dinner at Poplar Walk published in Monthly Magazine (December 1833) Marriage: Catherine (Hogarth) Dickens (1815-1879) : married April 2, 1836 in St. Lukes Church, Chelsea : Separated 1858 Children Charles Culliford (Charley) Dickens (1837-1896) Mary (Mamie) Dickens (1838-1896) Kate Macready (Katie) Dickens (1839-1929) Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841-1863) Francis Jeffrey (Frank) Dickens (1844-1886) Alfred DOrsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912) Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847-1872) Henry Fielding (Harry) Dickens (1849-1933) Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851) Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn) Dickens (1852-1902) Date of Death: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke) Place of Burial: Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey, London A Defining Episode in Dickens Life The episode in Dickens childhood when his father was imprisoned for debt and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory to help support the family is absolutely essential in knowing and understanding Dickens. This episode seemed to put a stain on the clever, sensitive boy that colored everything he accomplished, though he never told the story except obliquely through his fiction. Major Works Sketches by Boz (1836) Pickwick Papers (serialized monthly 1836-37) Oliver Twist (serialized monthly 1837-39) Nicholas Nickleby (serialized monthly 1838-39) The Old Curiosity Shop (serialized weekly 1840-41) Barnaby Rudge (serialized weekly 1841) Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized monthly 1843-44) Dombey and Son (serialized monthly 1846-48) David Copperfield (serialized monthly 1849-50) Bleak House (serialized monthly 1852-53) Hard Times (serialized weekly 1854) Little Dorrit (serialized monthly 1855-57) A Tale of Two Cities (serialized weekly 1859) Great Expectations (serialized weekly 1860-61) Our Mutual Friend (serialized monthly 1864-65) The Mystery of Edwin Drood - unfinished (serialized monthly 1870) Minor Works American Notes (1843) Pictures from Italy (1846) The Life of Our Lord (1846) A Childs History of England (serialized weekly 1851-53) Reprinted Pieces (1858) The Uncommercial Traveller (1861) Christmas Books A Christmas Carol (1843) The Chimes (1844) The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) The Battle of Life (1846) The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain (1848) Weekly Magazines Master Humphreys Clock (1840-41) Household Words (1850-59) All the Year Round (1859-70)
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