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Charles Dickens


Did you know that thought that Americans were distasteful? There is a reason
for this and you will find out if you read my essay. This will be a discussion on the famous author and his life.
The great author was born on February 7, 1812, he was the son of
John and Elizabeth Dickens. father, John Dickens, was a clerk in a Navy pay office. John was very bad with finances so he was put in jail because of his debt. Charles' whole family joined his father in jail and Charles was stuck working for Warrens Blacking Factory. After his father was let out of prison he rescued his son from his horrible labor fate.

From 1824 to 1827 he became a student at a school in London. Little ...

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in the House of Commons, and he became a reporter for a newspaper. In 1834 he adopted his famous pseudonym " Boz." Soon his father was put in jail for another count of debt and he came to his aid time. During his lifetime Charles' family would always be on his back for money.

In 1836 the first series of the "Sketches of Boz" was released , also during this year he was hired to be a short writer to go along with his humorous sport illustrations by Robert Seymour. Robert committed suicide after the second set was completed so Charles changed the conception of the "PickWick Paper's" which afterwards would become a novel. The PickWick Papers was a huge success through November 1837. In

1836 he became editor of Bentley's Miscellany then he published a second series of the

famous "Sketches of Boz", and met John Forster who later would become his greatest friend.

After the huge success with the PickWick Papers he became a full time novelist,

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