Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, in
Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens. He was the most popular English
novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's
most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print
Sharles visited America twice, where he gave lectures, raised support for copyright laws, and
recorded many of his impressions of America. In 1835 he met and became engaged to Catherine
Hogarth. In 1844 Dickens and his family toured Italy, and were much abroad, in Italy, Switzerland,
and France, until 1847 He died on the 9 June 1870 after a stroke.
Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of
publishing fiction at the time
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