Biography Of Charles Dickens

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These left a permanent mark on his
imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, which his
father encouraged. In retrospect Dickens looked upon these years as a kind of
golden age. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, is in part an attempt to
recreate their idyllic nature: it rejoices in innocence and the youthful spirit,
and its happiest scenes take place in that precise geographical area.
In the light of the family's move back to London, where financial
difficulties overtook the Dickens's, the time in Chatham must have seemed
glorious indeed. The family moved into the shabby suburb of Camden Town, and
Dickens was taken out of school and set to menial jobs about the household. In
time, to help augment the family income, ...

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