Charles Dickens Bio :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Charles demon (1812-1870) was a nineteenth century English writer who wrote such classics as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale Of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and patchy others. He was born into a middle class family, provided when he came hearth from boarding school at the age of ten he rig his family living in poverty. He was unable to return to school in order to help out at home. When he was twelve, his father was move to prison for his debts. While the rest of the family lived in Marshalsea prison Charles was forced to fix long hours in order to support himself. This left a tidy lifelong wound, social humiliation, and defeat. This was an extremely formative experience in infantile Charless life. Charles father, John, was a clerk in the Navy even out Office. John hook up with Elizabeth Barrows in 1809. Elizabeth Barrows father Charles Barrows was the chief Conductor in the Navy grant Office. Charles Dickens grandfather was also employed by the Navy Pay Office and was accused of embezzling 6,000 and fled England. His father John was the basis for the character Mr. Micawber mend his mother Elizabeth was the basis of Mrs. Nickleby. His first novel, the Pickwick Papers, was written as a concomitant from 1936-1937. Early in his career he taught people to expect the unlooked-for for he may have had them laughing in the Pickwick Papers but he soon showed a more serious side in Oliver Twist. He was labeled a social reformer because of the attack the execrable Law received as a result of his novel Oliver Twist. Charles took congratulate in his role of social reformer. Towards the end, Charles was not a happy man despite his literary success. His marriage had not been a love match, and in the end they lived separate lives. Restless, he released his non-literary energies in travel - to the US, Switzerland, and Italy.