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Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-70) was born in Portsmouth, in England. His family was extremely poor. The worst time for Dickens was when his father was sent to prison because he owned so much money, and Dickens himself was sent, aged only 12, to work in a factory.He remembered this terrible time all his life, and later wrote about it in his novel David Copperfield (1850).

The good times of Dickens... Dickens then started working as a newspaper reporter, and wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1837), which was very popular.In the next four years he wrote Oliver Twist and two more novels, which were all very successful. He was now a well-known writer, whose stories,like A Christmas Carol, appeared in monthly magazines.In A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), he showed his great interest in history, and in Great Expectations (1861) he wrote about the differences between the rich and the poor, which he had experienced himself in his own early life.