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Charles Dickens' Life

By AmekavSamra2

  • Birth

    Born Charles John Huffam Dickens, in Portsmouth

  • Moved to Chatham, Kent

  • Moved to Camden Town, London

    Poor neighbourhood in London

  • His father, John Dickens, was sent to jail

  • Forced to work at a boot-polish factory

    Earned six shillings a week

  • Became an office boy

    Contributed heavily towards being a writer

  • Began freelance reporting

    At the courts of london

  • Began working for two newspapers

    Sketches by Boz

  • Made a book all about sketches by Boz

  • Married Catherine Hogarth

    Brood of 10 children

  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published

  • Became Publisher of Bentley's Miscellany

  • Started Publishing Oliver Twist

    Monthly Instalments of Bentley's Miscellany

  • Barnaby Rudge, was published

  • The Old Curiousity Shop, was published

  • Went for a tour of the United States

    five month lecture tour

  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, was published

  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, was published

  • Spent a year in Italy

    Began taking pictures

  • David Copperfield, was published

    David Copperfield was Charles" favorite book of all time

  • Bleak House, was published

    Deals with the hypocrisy of Brithish society

  • John Dickens, died

  • Dickens' daughter died

  • Couple separated

  • A Tale of Two Cities, was published

    Takes place in the French Revolution

  • Great Expectations, was published

    This book aims at the journey of moral development of the protagonist. It is also considered his greatest literary mission

  • Set another United States Tour

  • Death

    Dickens passing was an event worldwide, and his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was unfinished. He died of a stroke in Gad's Hill Place, in Kent, England.All the talents felt suddenly extinct, as thousands lay at the grave, sobbing. He lived for 58 years from 1812-1870