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=Charles Dickens=

Charles Dickens is the author of this book.
His whole name is Charles John Huffam Dickens and he was born in the town Landport (near Hampshire) in England the 7. February in 1812. He had seven siblings but still, they managed quite well and did not live a life of poverty. The school he went to was a private school. When Charles Dickens was 12 years old his father got arrested for unpaid dept. Charles Dickens had to start working in a shoe shop, he worked 10 hours daily. The money he earned had to be paid to his friend’s family, because he was staying there. His own family had moved to Marshalsea, nearby his father’s prison. After a few years, his father was given an inheritance from his uncle. The living condition became better for his whole family, besides Charles himself. His mother did not take Charles with her when they moved, and he got really bitter because of this. The characters in his books are often very poor, and the living conditions are terrible. This is because he could never forgive his mother for what she did, and his life was characterized of this.

In May 1827, he started in a position at a company which made it possible for him to become a lawyer. He didn’t like to be a lawyer, so he quit.

In 1834 he became a journalist. Two years later he married the girl Catherine Hogarth, the daughter of the editor at the news paper he was working in. They settled in London and got 10 children together. They got divorced in 1858, and at this point Charles had already became a known writer worldwide. Catherine didn’t handle this well because she didn’t have the same everlasting energy that Charles had.

He spend the last years of his life performing his texts. His good performing skills is said to be a reason for his early dead. He had to cancel the tour in 1869 because he got a stroke. Still, he performed in London the same year. He got a new stroke in 1870. The day after, he died. That was the June 9. His grave is at Westminster Abbey, and the text on his grave stone is like this: " He was a sympathizer to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”

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