Biography charles dickens ppt background

Charles Dickens is one of England’s most famous authors. Remembered for capturing the worst and best of times the Victorian era had to offer, Dickens’ novels enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and are still widely read today.

His best-known novels, including Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities, have even shaped how we speak.

Yet more than entertaining Victorian Britain and beyond, through his writing Dickens championed children’s rights and social reform, education and accessible literature, and kindness towards others.

From boot-blacking to world infamy, here are 10 facts about Charles Dickens.

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Biography charles dickens ppt background

He went to work in a factory from age 12

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in 1812 to Royal Navy clerk John Dickens and his wife Elizabeth. Life as a clerk was hard, and the Dickens moved from Portsmouth to Kent to London but they could not escape John’s ever-growing debt.

In 1824, the debtors came to collec