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Birth
Son of John and Elizabeth Dickens in Portsmouth England. -
Put to work at Warren's Blacking Factory
After his father is arrested for inability to pay bills. To support his family he goes to work, this is undoubtedly a black smudge on the life of Dickens. It did however shape his character and provide inspiritation for future works written with this memory in mind. -
Drops out of school and becomes a journalist.
By this time in his life he has discovered his love for writing. -
Marriage to Catherine Hogarth
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Writing Career Begins
First writing as a journalist, he worked under the pseudonymn "Boz", he also wrote the Pickwick Papers and began Oliver Twist. -
The Chirstmas Carol is written
His famous Christmas novel. -
Dombey and Son begins its run
A novel written in sequences -
David Copperfield is written
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Bleak House finishes
One of his books to be written in sequences, one chapter or scene per week. -
Public Readings
They start in this year and will continue (mostly in London) until the very day that he dies. -
Tale of Two Cities is released
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Tour of America
Dickens went on a tour of America for the first time -
Death
Charles Dickens dies in London