Charles Dickens was an author that lived during the victorian age, he was the type of author that was actually appreciated while he was still living and when he died. Dickens lived his life like many of the authors before him and many after but something he did made him appealing to those who was around him.Charles was the best author that came from the 1800s and still is a great author to many today. He was a author during the victorian age, this era got its name because tis was the time that Queen Victoria reigned. She ruled from 20 june 1837 to 22 january 1901. This era was a long period of time but it was filled with stability and peace.
The Victorian era was preceded by the Georgian era and extremely long era that went through four georges and an william. This was when the parliament in london represented and governed england,wales,scotland,and ireland as the uk. This is
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Charles parents was a couple that attended many social events, so much that charles was actually born at a ball. Charles was the second of eight children. Due to having so many children and attending so many social events the family was always struggling financially. Charles and the rest of the children had a nanny who read to them these stories intrested charles and made him to want to be a gentleman and go to school. But this was interrupted because charles father was sent to jail for not paying debt when charles was 12. Dickens was sent to work at a shoe polish factory. Charles was not pleased with working so much that he rarely spoke during the time he had to work which was only a year since his father was released when he came into some inheritance money. Charles went back to school but he had to drop out when he was fifteen to work in which he became an office