Name :- Gohil Devangiba AniruddhsinhRoll No. :- 14Email id :- devangibagohil786@gmail.com M.A . Semester - 2Paper No. :- 6 (The Victorian Literature)Topic :- Charles Dickens’s Life and worksSubmitted To :- Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam

Dickens was an English writer and Social critic.

He was born on February 7 1812 in Landport, England.

Charles Dickens was born to his father John Dickens who was a naval clerk and his mother Elizabeth Barrow who was a teacher and school director.

Even though his parents worked hard, the family remained poor.

Early Life

Charles Dickens was the second of the eight children. In 1882 the Dickens family moved to Camden Town, a poor neighborhood in London. By then the family’s financial situation had grown worse, as John Dickens had a dangerous habit of living beyond the family ‘s means. Eventually, John Dickens was sent to prison for debt in 1824, when Charles Dickens was just 12 years old.

Following his father ‘s imprisonment Charles Dickens

was forced to leave school to work at a boot-blacking

factory it was the best he could do to help support his

family. He felt abandoned and betrayed by the adults who were

supposed to take care of him. These sentiments became

a recurring theme in his writing.

Much to his relief. Dickens was permitted to go back to

school when his father received a family inheritance and

used it to pay off his debts.

But when Dickens was 15 his , his education was pulled

out from under him once again. In 1827, he had to drop out

of school and work as an office boy to contribute to his

family’s income. As it turned out, the job became an early

launching point for his writing career.

In the same year that Sketches by Boz was released.

Dickens started published The Posthumous Papers of the

Pickwick Club, this was how his writing career

started…….

Works

By now, Dickens had also become publisher a magazine called ‘Bentley’s Miscellany’.

In this magazine he started publishing his first novel, Oliver Twist, which follows the life of an orphan living in the streets.

The story was inspired by how Dickens felt as a poor child forced to get by on his wits and earn his own living.

Dickens continued showcasing Oliver

Twist in the magazine he later edited,

including Houshold Words and All the Year

Round, the latter of which he founded.

The novel was extremely well received

in both England and America

Success…

Household Words

by

Charles Dickens

All The Year Round

by

Charles Dickens

Fame

In 1842, Dickens and his wife, Kate, embarked on a five-month lecture tour of the United States. During his first U.S. tour, in 1842, Dickens had criticized the American of their Behaviour refering to his childhood, so in light of his criticism of the American people during his first tour. Dickens launched a second U.S. tour, from 1867 to 1868, hoping to set things right with the public. On his second tour, he made a charismatic speech promising to praise the United States.

Novels

The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)

The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley’s Miscellany. February 1837 to April 1839)

The life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)

The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey’s Clock, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841)

The Christmas books A Christmas Carole (1843)The Chimes(1844)The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)The Battle of Life (1846)

Books

Great Expectation With its thrilling story that is also a profound look at the moral education of a boy who has been persecuted and deceived but whose essential goodness of heart eventually rescues him from snobbery and delusion.

Oliver Twist

With its larger-than-life villainies and its endless excitements, is the perfect book to begin with. Who will ever forget the supremely wicked Fagin who co-opts homeless boys into a life of crime, the murderous Bill Sickes, the brave young Oliver himself.

David Copperfield

The book closest to Dickens’s heart. The first- person narrative sweeps you along, and the characters – from the wicked murdstones and conniving Uriah Heep to the warm-hearted if feckless Micawbers , from Aunt Betsey Trotwood, Little Em’ly, and Steerforth.