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Birth
Born at Landport, a suburb of Portsmouth to Elizabeth and John Dickens, a clerk in the navy pay-office at the dockyard. -
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CHARLES DICKENS
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Arrested Father
Father arrested for debt and sent to Marshalsea prison, where family joins him, except for Charles, who has been put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory at Hungerford Market. -
School
Removed from school and sent to an attorney as an office boy. -
Falls in love
Meets Maria Beadnell and falls madly in love. -
Theatrical audition
Requested a theatrical audition, and was accepted. -
absence
Was taken ill and could not keep his theatrical audition "was laid up ... with a terrible bad cold and an inflammation of the face. He commented years later how near he may have been to another sort of life." -
Love ends
His love affair with Maria Beadnell ends -
His first published story
His first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears in Monthly Magazine. -
Wedding
Weds Catherine Thomson Hogarth -
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist was published by Richard Bentley -
Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is published. -
The hunted man
Begins writing The Haunted Man. -
Performed for the queen
The Frozen Deep is performed for the Queen by his theatre company. -
Falls in love again
Falls in love with a young actress named Ellen Ternan -
Separetes
Separates from his wife Catherine -
His health fails
His health begins to fail. -
the accident
He and Ellen Ternan are involved in a railway accident at Staplehurst. -
The last novel
Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood. -
His last novel
Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood -
Death
Dies at 6:10 PM. -
