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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) 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 • Private education – in William Giles's School in Chatham • From 1825-27 Charles was able to attend the Wellington House Academy,
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
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)