Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
查理斯 · 狄更斯被深愛著的對經典的英語文學做出了巨大貢獻。他是典型的維多利亞時代作者。他的史詩般的故事,生動的人物形象和詳盡描寫當代生活的令人難忘。他自己的故事是從赤貧到暴富之一。他出生在朴茨茅斯在 1812 年 2 月 7 日,約翰和伊莉莎白狄更斯。在九歲的時候被派往學校的好運氣是短暫因為他父親,靈感的 David 科波菲爾中密考伯先生的字元 ',' 壞賬而遭監禁。整個家庭,除了查理斯,被送往爾西和他們的族長。查理斯被送到工作在沃倫的黑色鞋油廠和忍受惡劣的環境,以及寂寞,以及對他的懲罰。三年後,他被送回學校,但是經驗永遠不會忘記和這種葉錦添中的兩個他名氣更大的小說 ' David 科波菲爾和遠大前程。許多人一樣,他開始了他作為一名記者的文學生涯。父親他成為一名記者和查理斯開始與期刊 '議會鏡子' 和 ' 的真實太陽 '。然後在 1833年他這種議會的早上紀事報 》 記者。有新的連絡人,在新聞界他就能到 aflaai 發佈一系列的目光猥褻,筆名 '博'。在 1836 年 4 月,他娶了凱薩琳 · 荷加斯,喬治 · 霍加斯編輯 '由博利爾' 的女兒。在同一個月內到了高度成功外傳,出版,從這一點上沒有沒有尋找回到狄更斯。As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
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