charles dickens

Charles dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812. His father was unable to manage his money properly, and when Dickens was a child, the family was always worried and poor. They lived in London some of the time,  but moved often. It seemed that Dickens would  not be well educated. His father did not pay his debts and was sent to prison. Dickens ’s mother and four of her children went to live with him. Dickens, who was still a young boy, had to work in a factory. However, his father’s position improved and he was sent to school again.

                          He became a clerk in a lawyer’s office, and later as a newspaper reporter. He began writing short stories and by the time he was twenty five, he had become famous and popular. He has written a lot of classics like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby , Scrooge and tale of two cities. Dickens married and had ten children. He died in 1870.