Charles Dickens was an English writer in the Victorian era. His famous career started when his family’s finances forced him in his mid-teens to become an errand boy at an attorney’s office. By 1832 Charles became a very successful reporter. In 1834, Charles took on the soon to be recognized pen name, “Boz”. (Dickens: A Brief Biography) After taking on the pet name Charles’s career truly took off. First starting with Pickwick Papers then going into some pieces like, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and more. Having a difficult childhood influenced Charles in a lot of his future works. Dickens was known for being a social critic and using society’s injustices around him to write a large majority of his works. Lastly every writer has …show more content…
Charles had a difficult childhood which is mostly to blame for the fact his father was terrible with his family’s finances and wanted to be wealthy desperately. This greed caused Charles’ father to become in debt and eventually be imprisoned. While John was in prison Charles had to quit his education and go work to help his family economically. (The Influence of Charles Dickens on Literature Education) Working in the shoe polishing factory caused Charles to be emotionally scarred. Even after his father was released from prison and Charles didn’t have to work anymore he could never truly ignore the working conditions he endured. Having to be reminded of these horrible conditions he was put through Charles used his pain to write on. “. . . many of his broad novelistic images and themes—prisons, degraded conditions of labor children lost in the city-grew out of his traumatic childhood.” (Hackenberg) Charles wrote a novel called David Copperfield, which is based off of his own teenage years. Charles’ terrible experience at a factory same as the character David in David Copperfield at the factory of Mudstone and Granby’s. (The Influence of Charles Dickens on Literature Education) After sometime when everything is settled down Charles falls in love for the first time to a Maria Beadnell. The relationship did not end well and the couple broke apart. The reasoning for the separation was rumored to be due to Maria’s family. Charles going through the toxic relationship caused him to later base Maria as a non-flattering character in the novel Little Dorrit (Dickens: Brief Biography) Also, same as the novel Little Dorrit, Charles’ childhood revolved around economic issues. “It is all about money - how society and government deal with its abundance and shortcomings - and the effect on the individual.”(Laurel Ann, Austenprose, paragraph one sentence three) Charles