User:Thecleverreader/sandbox


 * I am suggesting a possible translation for this article that is on Wikipedia. I would like to know how to email on Wikipedia. I am a user of Assumptyte journal that is used to discuss and offer translations of printed works.--Thecleverreader (talk) 18:02, 4 June 2015 (UTC)Thecleverreader


 * Hello Thecleverreader, on Wikipedia we don't generally "email", we post on the Talk page of another editor, or on a larger community talk page. If you're just starting to find your way around here, I suggest visiting WP:Teahouse to talk to friendly volunteer mentors who may have some good advice.


 * By the way, don't click "Submit" unless what you have on the page is a complete draft of a potential article that you'd like reviewed for publication. I removed the Submission banner for you since this doesn't appear to be what you're trying to do. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:51, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

This is my Sandbox. I will practice edits here.

suggesting a mention on something
→‘‘Put text quoted from page here’’

Quote from page
‘‘Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), the second of eight children of John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam,[12] rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's eponymous Dombey and Son (1848).[12]

In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia.[13] When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy".[14]

Charles spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas. He read and reread The Arabian Nights and the Collected Farces of Elizabeth Inchbald.[15] He retained poignant memories of childhood, helped by an excellent memory of people and events, which he used in his writing.[16] His father's brief work as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded him a few years of private education, first at a dame school, and then at a school run by William Giles, a dissenter, in Chatham.[17] ’’