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    All about Charles Dickens
    All about Charles Dickens
    All about Charles Dickens
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    All about Charles Dickens

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    About Charles Dickens

    Early Works

    Dickens in America

    Philanthropy

    Mid Career

    Twilight Years

    Second Visit to America

    Farewell Readings

    Death

    Literary Style in his Writings

    Characterization

    Autobiographical Touch

    Writing in Episodes

    Social Commentary and Literary Techniques

    Legacy

    Anti-Semitism and Racism

    Charles Dickens Quotes

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateAug 9, 2011
    ISBN9781465878533
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      Table of Content

      All about Charles Dickens

      Table of Content

      Biographical Details

      Early Works

      Dickens in America

      Philanthropy

      Mid Career

      Twilight Years

      Second Visit to America

      Farewell Readings

      Death

      Literary Style

      Characterization

      Autobiographical Touch

      Writing in Episodes

      Social Commentary and Literary Techniques

      Legacy

      Anti Semitism and Racism

      Charles Dickens Quotes

      Biographical Details

      English literature would be like ice cream cake without sugar, the most important, if not the most important, ingredient. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812; he was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.

      Dickens’ novels were mostly social, with their recurrent concern for social reform. His novels first appeared in magazines in serialized form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized.

      The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

      Writers such as Gissing and G. K. Chesterton have praised his works for their mastery of prose and unique personalities. On the other hand, some writers and critics, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticized him for sentimentality and implausibility.

      During the first three years of his life, Charles Dickens lived in Portsmouth, Hampshire. After that, the family moved to London in 1815. His early years seem to have been idyllic, although he thought himself a very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy.

      He spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, especially the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. He spoke, later in life, of his poignant memories of childhood and of his near photographic memory of the people and events that he used in his writing.

      His father's brief period as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded Charles a few years' private education at William Giles's School, in Chatham.

      The following events were not so easy for Dickens. His father had to go through adverse circumstances. John Dickens spent beyond his means and was imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtor's prison in Southwark, London. Shortly afterwards, the rest of his family joined him—except Charles, who boarded with family friend Elizabeth Roylance in Camden Town. Mrs. Roylance was "a reduced

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