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The life that Charles Dickens lived seemed like a swell life, which it may have been, but the things people say are not what they seem. Charles Dickens was a deep soul that would write his feelings down in multiple of his life works. Charles Dickens did not have a bad life as growing up, but he also did not live the most luxury life. It was rough at first for him when he started his career as a writer, but as more people started purchasing his books the more he became known. Everything that has happened in Charles Dickens life to help him succeed is his early life, personal life and legacy, and also his fame.
First, where it all began when Charles Dickens was a young lad. “Their home, at Mile End Terrance, Portsea, was the birthplace of Charles …show more content…

“On April 2, 1836, the famous novelist got married to Editor George Hogarth’s daughter, Catherine. The couple had ten children in the course of twenty – two years of marriage” (thefamouspeople.com.) In twenty – one years a little change happened “In 1857, he met Ellen Ternan, an eighteen year old actress, who had a part to play in his play 'The Frozen Deep', and fell in love with her” (thefamouspeople.com.) Charles Dickens was not to happy when she found out about the affair he had going on; it made their whole relationship turn sour. It states that “Till his death, the famous writer maintained his relationship with Ellen Ternan, and it is speculated that they had a child who died in infancy” (thefamouspeople.com.) In the year of 1870 Charles Dickens died of a horrible due to paralysis.”His grave tomb read “To the memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent 9 1870, aged 58 years” (thefamousepeople.com.) England was lost without one of the greatest writers that ever stepped foot on any land. That the world will be lost lost without him, and his amazing writing skills. Even though Charles Dickens did not want a statue built of himself, but there are many memorials that have been built on his behalf. The people want to thank him for all of his hard work he put into writing those

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