Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens was an English writer and became famous in 1836 from his Pickwick Papers, which was first published as a serial.
The full name of Charles Dickens was Charles John Huffam Dickens, and early on in his career he used the pseudonymn Boz, a family nickname.
Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth, England and died on 9 June, 1870 in Kent, England.
Charles Dickens first started to write in 1832, when he was 20 years of age.
Charles Dickens was initially married to Catherine Thomson Hogarth, and had ten children.

Charles Dickens’ novels have been made into at least 200 films and adaptations.
Charles Dickens was also a political journalist and a social critic.
Charles Dickens survived the major Staplehurst rail crash in 1865, and eventually died due to stroke exactly five years later, “on the ground” being his last words.
In 2003 in BBC’s Big Read, Charles Dickens had five books starring in the top 100; Great Expectations (no. 17), David Copperfield (no. 34), A Christmas Carol (no. 47), A Tale of Two Cities (no. 63) and Bleak House (no. 79).
Charles Dickens toured the United Kingdom and United States a number of times, for the purpose of undertaking a series of public readings, which were very popular.