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He was born at Portsmouth, England, with Johm and Elizabeth Dickens his perents.
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John Dickens was arrested and sent to the Marshalsea prison. Charles Dickens worked at the Warren's Blacking Factory, while his father was in prision his family moved near the prision and left Charles alone.
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Charles returned to school when his father received an inheritance and was able to repay his debts.
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He was forced to leave school and work as an office boy. In the following year he bacame a freelance reporter and stenographer, using shorthand to transcribe documents.
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Dickens meets Maria Beadnell, his first love interest.
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He had become a reporter for two London newspaper and, in the following year, began to contribute a series of impressions and sketches to other newspapers and magazines, signing some of them ´´Boz´´.
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These scenes of London life wnt far to establish his reputation and were published in 1836 as sketches by Boz, his first book.
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So great was Dickens´s success with the precedure That Pickwick became one of the most popular works of the times, and continued to be so after it was published in book form.
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Publication of The Old Curiosity Shop begins
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Barnaby Rudge is published.
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Late in 1842 or early in the next year Dickens begins work on Martin Chuzzlewit.
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A Christmas Carol is published.
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Publication of Dombey and Son begins.
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The Haunted Man, his last Christmas book is published.
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The publication of Bleak House begins
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Hard Times is published.
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A Tale of Two Cities is published.
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Publication of Great Expectations begins in All the Year Round.
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Dickens begins work on Our Mutual Friend.
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Dickens is ordered by doctors to discontinue readings. Dickens begins writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Dickens gives his final public reading. Publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins. Charles Dickens dies at Gad's Hill Place on June 9.
