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Charles Dickens and his works (other then novels)

Charles Dickens and his works (other then novels). By Jürgen Lätte. Early life. Charles John Huffam Dickens Born on 7th February in 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire , on June 9, 1870 second child of John and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens 8 siblings

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Charles Dickens and his works (other then novels)

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  1. Charles Dickens and his works (other then novels) By Jürgen Lätte

  2. Early life • Charles John Huffam Dickens • Born on 7th February in 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on June 9, 1870 • second child of John and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens • 8 siblings • Private education – in William Giles's School in Chatham • From 1825-27 Charles was able to attend the Wellington House Academy,

  3. Later years • In 1836, Dickens accepted the job of editor of Bentley's Miscellany • 2 April 1836, he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth • They had ten children. • A pet raven

  4. What did Dickens write? • Selected non-fiction, poetry, and plays • The Village Coquettes (Plays, 1836) • The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841) • Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (novel 1838) • American Notes: For General Circulation (travelogue1842) • Pictures from Italy (travelogue 1846) • The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children(1849) • A Child's History of England (1853) • The Frozen Deep (play, 1857) • Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870) • Short story collections • The Mudfog Papers (1837) in Bentley's Miscellany magazine • Reprinted Pieces (1861) • The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869) • Sketches by Boz(1836)

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