Index
1.Personal information.
2.A part of his life.
3.About Nicholas Nickleby.
4.His books
Personal information
•Charles Dickens was born on February 7th. 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
•He died on June 9th. 1870 in Gads Hall.
A part of his life
•He was the second of eight children in a family often plagued by debt. Dickens at ten, saw his father arrested and confined in the Marshalsea, a debtor’s prision in London and although as a small boy he was placed on a blacking factory where he worked labeling bottles, visiting John Dickens, his father, on Sundays. Charles returned to school on his father’s release, taught himself shorthand and at sixteen became a parlamentary reporter. At twenty-four his carreer took off with the publication of Scketches by Boz (1836), which was followed by Pickwick papers the next year. As a novelist and successes through Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). His family life had ended earlier, in 1858 when fame drew him apart from his wife of twenty-three years, Catherine, and (although his readers never knew) in the arms of young Ellen Ternan, an actress. Ill health slowed him down but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public that included Queen Victoria. At his death, he left The mistery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
About Nicholas Nickleby
•Nicholas Nickleby is one of the books that Charles Dickens wrote and is very similar to his life because of the time the place and the economical situation. Something that was very important to him in this book was the difference between the rich people an the poor people.
His books
•The Old Curiosity Shop.
•A Christmas Carol.
•Martin Chewzzlewit.
•A Tale of Two Cities.
•Great Expectations.
•Scketches by Boz.
•Paperwick Papers.
1.Personal information.
2.A part of his life.
3.About Nicholas Nickleby.
4.His books
Personal information
•Charles Dickens was born on February 7th. 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
•He died on June 9th. 1870 in Gads Hall.
A part of his life
•He was the second of eight children in a family often plagued by debt. Dickens at ten, saw his father arrested and confined in the Marshalsea, a debtor’s prision in London and although as a small boy he was placed on a blacking factory where he worked labeling bottles, visiting John Dickens, his father, on Sundays. Charles returned to school on his father’s release, taught himself shorthand and at sixteen became a parlamentary reporter. At twenty-four his carreer took off with the publication of Scketches by Boz (1836), which was followed by Pickwick papers the next year. As a novelist and successes through Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). His family life had ended earlier, in 1858 when fame drew him apart from his wife of twenty-three years, Catherine, and (although his readers never knew) in the arms of young Ellen Ternan, an actress. Ill health slowed him down but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public that included Queen Victoria. At his death, he left The mistery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
About Nicholas Nickleby
•Nicholas Nickleby is one of the books that Charles Dickens wrote and is very similar to his life because of the time the place and the economical situation. Something that was very important to him in this book was the difference between the rich people an the poor people.
His books
•The Old Curiosity Shop.
•A Christmas Carol.
•Martin Chewzzlewit.
•A Tale of Two Cities.
•Great Expectations.
•Scketches by Boz.
•Paperwick Papers.
