Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters. Dickens’s literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre.
About Charles Dickens in brief
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles. He campaigned vigorously for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens’s literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. Dickens has been praised by many. of his fellow writers – from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell, G. K. Chesterton, and Tom Wolfe – for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and. social criticism. However, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
He read and reread The Arabian Nights and the Collected Farces of Elizabeth Inchbald, which he retained by an excellent memory and used in his writing. He also read Robinson Crusoe and Gilchald. He helped to write The Blchald of Blald Blald, a novel of childhood, by which he helped to create the character of Blachald Blanch. He was also the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens’s novel Dombey and Son. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a “very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy\”. Charles spent time outdoors, but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. 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 father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majesty’s Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. In January 1815, John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities is his best- known work of historical fiction.
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