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On February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens, one of the most famous British writers, was born in Landport, England. -
When he was five, his family moved to Chatham, Kent. He attended elementary school from the age of seven to nineteen. His family was middle class, but his financial situation worsened when his father was imprisoned.
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Morning Chronicle was a famous British newspaper in which Charles Dickens, in 1829, began to publish his first works under a pseudonym and people liked them very much. -
In 1830, he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have 10 children. -
Charles Dickens published his first book in 1837, a comic novel called the posthumous papers of the Pickwick club and it became very popular in Britain. -
In 1841 he was decorated as an adoptive son of the city of Edinburgh and he traveled to United States where he had a great reception for his success.
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In 1843 he published a fantasy story, one of his best acquaintances books for his morality, it's Christmas Carol. -
Finally, Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870 when he was 58 because he had a cerebral haemorrhage.