Short charles dickens biography

English novelist and social critic (–)

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Short charles dickens biography

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February – 9 June ) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.^[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

His novels and short stories are widely read today.^[2][3]

Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.

After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 year