Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 and spent his childhood living in the coast marshes of Kent, England, in both the same place and time period that Pip had done. When Dickens was nine, his family moved to London, just as Pip too eventually did to pursue an education. Both Pip and Dickens had experienced a childhood of poverty and destitute. When Dickens was only twelve, his father John was put in debtors' prison. Dickens's mother moved his seven siblings into prison with their father, but the second-oldest Dickens was to live alone outside the prison and work with other young in a blacking warehouse for three months. This experience was extremely disturbing for Dickens as not only was the job itself dreadful, but Dickens felt himself