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Charles
Dickens
Name:
Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens),
(English)
Genre: novels, short stories
Time period: 1812 – 1870
Significant features: - the greatest English novelist of the Victorian Era (if not of all times)
- ability to be original and to address every human being
- created many memorable characters connected with different sides of
Victorian England
- brilliant use of language
Significant work: The Pickwick Papers
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
David Copperfield
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Christmas books: A Christmas Carol
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man
Christmas Stories
Other pieces of work: American Notes.
Pictures from Italy
A Child´s History of England
Plays and Poems
Personal life: his happy childhood finished at the age of twelve when he had to finish school and was
sent to work in a shoe-polish factory in London because of his father´s financial disaster – he could not
make the ends meet, he was put into a special prison for people who could not pay their debts and his
family lived there with him, the hard factory conditions deeply and permanently influenced Charles´s
writing, he went back to school after a year and left at fifteen, then he worked as a clerk in a lawyer´s
office, a reporter in law-courts and a newspaper reporter, in 1883 his stories were published in various
London newspapers and magazines and The Pickwick Papers made him famous nationwide
- he married Catherine Hogarth, they had ten children, she separated from him and there were rumours
about his relationship with an actress Ellen Ternan which lasted until his death
- Dickens was working hard concentrating on more than one book at a time, his novels were published
monthly or weekly in magazines – it was profitable but exhausting
- he enjoyed travelling (America, Italy, Switzerland, France) and society, his house was open to
writers, journalists, artists and actors
- he loved giving public readings from his books going around the country, he even performed in the
United States (470 two-hour readings during ten years), he was completely exhausted, became ill and
depressed and died suddenly at the age of fifty-eight
Other important/interesting facts: he was considered to be the finest recitalist, the best amateur
actor, a successful periodical editor, the best after-dinner speaker, he was highly humanitarian and
radical in his fight against social injustice – iniciated the origin of many reforms in favour of children
and the poor
Source: BRENDLOVÁ, Světla a NOVY, Jan Lindsey. Literatura anglicky mluvících zemí = A survey of
literature in English-speaking countries. 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 1998. 144 s. ISBN 80-85784-31-9.
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