Charles Dickens - Life

Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812-June 9, 1870) pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. During his lifetime, Dickens was viewed as a popular entertainer of fecund imagination, while later critics championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. The popularity of his novels and short stories during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none has ever gone out of print. Dickens played a major role in popularising the serialised no ...

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Dickens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to John Dickens, a naval pay clerk, and his wife Elizabeth Barrow. When he was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. When he was ten, the family relocated to Camden Town in London. His early years were an idyllic time. He thought himself then as a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy". He spent his time outdoors, reading voraciously with a particular fondness for the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. He talked later in life of his extremely strong memorie ...

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Charles Dickens was a well known personality and his novels were immensely popular during his lifetime. His first full novel, The Pickwick Papers, brought him immediate fame and this continued right through his career. He maintained a high quality in all his writings and, although never departing greatly from his typical "Dickensian" style, he did experiment with different themes, moods and genres. Some of these experiments were more successful than others and the public's taste and appreciation of his many works have varied over time ...

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There have been several performances of Dickens readings by Emlyn Williams, Bransby Williams and also Simon Callow in the Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals. There are museums and festivals celebrating Dickens' life and works in many of the towns with which he was associated. The Charles Dickens Museum, London is the only one of Dickens' London homes to survive. He lived there only two years but in this time wrote The P ...

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Dickens' writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery — he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator" — are wickedly funny. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens' flights of fancy which can sum up situations better than any simple description. The characters are among the most memorable in English literature — certainly their names are. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs Gamp ...

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Read more here: » Charles Dickens: Encyclopedia II - Charles Dickens - Literary style

There have been several performances of Dickens reading by Emlyn Williams, Bransby Williams and also Simon Callow in the Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals. There are museums and festivals celebrating Dickens' life and works in many of the towns with which he was associated. The Charles Dickens Museum, London is the only one of Dickens' London homes to survive. He lived there only two years but in this time wrote The Pi ...

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Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens - Life, Charles Dickens - Literary style, Charles Dickens - Legacy, Charles Dickens - Adaptations of Dickens readings, Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals, Charles Dickens - Bibliography, Charles Dickens - Major novels, Charles Dickens - Selected other books, Charles Dickens - Short stories, Charles Dickens - Essays, Charles Dickens - Articles

Read more here: » Charles Dickens: Encyclopedia II - Charles Dickens - Adaptations of Dickens readings

Dickens' writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery — he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator" — are wickedly funny. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens’ flights of fancy which can sum up situations better than any simple description could. The characters are among the most memorable in English literature, certainly their names are. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs ...

See also:

Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens - Life, Charles Dickens - Literary style, Charles Dickens - Legacy, Charles Dickens - Adaptations of Dickens readings, Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals, Charles Dickens - Bibliography, Charles Dickens - Major novels, Charles Dickens - Selected other books, Charles Dickens - Short stories, Charles Dickens - Essays, Charles Dickens - Articles

Read more here: » Charles Dickens: Encyclopedia II - Charles Dickens - Literary style

Charles Dickens was a well known personality and his novels were immensely popular during his lifetime. His first full novel The Pickwick Papers brought him immediate fame and this fame continued right through his career. He maintained a high quality in all his writings and although never departing greatly from his typical "Dickensian" style he did experiment with different themes, moods and genres. Some of these experiments were more successful than others and the public’s taste and appreciation of his various works have varied ove ...

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Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens - Life, Charles Dickens - Literary style, Charles Dickens - Legacy, Charles Dickens - Adaptations of Dickens readings, Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals, Charles Dickens - Bibliography, Charles Dickens - Major novels, Charles Dickens - Selected other books, Charles Dickens - Short stories, Charles Dickens - Essays, Charles Dickens - Articles

Read more here: » Charles Dickens: Encyclopedia II - Charles Dickens - Legacy