CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS WORKS

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CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS WORKS

• Karin Salupuu 11.B

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Charles John Huffam Dickens

• 1812-1870
• The most popular novelist of the Victorian
  period
• Father briefly worked as a clerk in the Navy
  Pay Office
• Education William Giles's SchoolWellington
  House AcademyMr. Dawson's school

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• Had to work in a blakcing factory at the age of
  12
• On 2 April 1836 married Catherine Thomson Hogarth
• 10 children
• Had affaires with other women
• Separated from his wife in 1858
• Died at Gads Hill Place in 1870(stroke)

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• Catherine ThomsonHogarth

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Career

• Warren's Blacking Warehouse
• Junior clerk at a law office (1827-1828)
• A freelance reporter
• 1833 first story A Dinner at Poplar Walk
• Election campaignes for the Morning Chronicle
• 1836 Sketches by Boz
• 1836 first novel The Pickwick Papers
• Contributed and edited journals

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Dickenss Works

• Realistic
• Unique characters
• Mastery of prose
• attacks on social evils injustice hypocrisy

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Examples of works (other than novels)

• Short story collectionsSketches by Boz
• The Mudfog Papers
• Short stories to Christmas numbers of
  magazinesHoushold Words (1851-58)All the Year
  Round (1859-67)
• TraveloguesAmerican Notes For General
  Circulation
• Pictures from Italy

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• PoetryThe Fine Old English Gentleman
• PlaysThe Village Coquettes The Frozen Deep

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_dickens
• http//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm
• http//www.online-literature.com/dickens/
• Pictures http//www.google.com

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