Charles Dickens Research Paper

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Charles Dickens’ life is like something out of a Charles Dickens novel, which is probably not a coincidence. Almost everyone read one book by Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens, one of the greatest authors of English literature of all time, wrote on the issues and problems that concerned the lives of the people around him.
(collins). He was born in England portsmouth, on feb.07,1812, at portsea (later part of portsmouth)and he was the second of eight children. (“Charles Dickens Biography”). Charles Dickens father was a clerk in the navy who dream of becoming a rich person, Charles Dickens Mother, Elizabeth Barrow, aspire to be a teacher and school director.his father was was working on his duty in the neighborhood when Charles was born. His …show more content…

In 1816. His father spent more time in prison for debt.(“Charles Dickens Biography”). While his father was in debt prison the rest of the family moved to live near the prison,the rest of the family moved to live near the prison, leaving Charles to live alone. But,when his father was free it was hard for him to find a good job and he lacked the money to support his family.(Collins).Dickens when to school off and on until he was 15, and then he left school for good (Collins). Dickens liked to read books and he really enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tale, and novels. (Collins).He was influenced by such earlier English writers as Tobias Smollett, william shakespeare and Henry Fielding. However, most as an author came from his environment around him.(“Charles Dickens Biography”) …show more content…

The book was published in the following year.
Over the next couple of year Dickens published his first Christmas book. One was the classic a Christmas Carol , which was featuring the timeless protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly old man, who, with the help of a christmas ghost,help him finds the Christmas spirit.
In 1865, Charles was in a train that got into an accident and his injuries was never fully recovered. Despite his injuries and fragile condition,Charles Dickens continued on his tour until the year 1870. On June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens had a stroke that lead to his death , he died at age 58, at Gad’s Hill place,at his country home in Kent, England. Charles Dickens body was buried in a place called poet’s corner at westminster Abbey, with thousand of people gathering at the beloved author’s gravesite. Thomas Carlyle writer Scottish Satirical described dickens passing as “an event worldwide, a unique of talents suddenly extinct.”at the time of dickens death Charles Dickens he had one more novel that was unfinished because of his death that was the Mystery of Edwin