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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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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.
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Removed from school and sent to an attorney as an office boy.
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Meets Maria Beadnell and falls madly in love.
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Requested a theatrical audition, and was accepted.
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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."
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His love affair with Maria Beadnell ends
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His first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears in Monthly Magazine.
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Weds Catherine Thomson Hogarth
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Oliver Twist was published by Richard Bentley
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A Christmas Carol is published.
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Begins writing The Haunted Man.
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The Frozen Deep is performed for the Queen by his theatre company.
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Falls in love with a young actress named Ellen Ternan
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Separates from his wife Catherine
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His health begins to fail.
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He and Ellen Ternan are involved in a railway accident at Staplehurst.
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Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Begins The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Dies at 6:10 PM.
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