Charles Dickens

Born February 7, 1812· Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK

† Died June 9, 1870

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Emerging from a modest upbringing in Portsmouth, where early schooling was interrupted by his father’s imprisonment, Dickens entered the literary world after a stint as a boot-black and a brief return to education, launching his career as a journalist and weekly-journal editor. His breakthrough arrived with the serialisation of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, establishing a pattern of cliff-hanger in… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources