Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February
7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children.
His father worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay office and was imprisoned for
debt when Charles was young. Charles Dickens went to work at a blacking
warehouse, managed by a relative of his mother, when he was twelve, and his brush
with hard times and poverty affected him deeply. Continue reading here.
Here you can watch the British television film
adapted from Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop.
“Charles Dickens excelled in
character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human
beings.”
T.S. Eliot
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