As the world celebrates 200 birth anniversary of the greatest English Novelist of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens, we at Spectralhues also paying our tribute to the author who had created unforgettable characters like Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby and David Copperfield.
Charles Dickens
The British author, Charles Dickens was born on 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth. Dickens’ works are mostly focused on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. Most of Dickens novels portray the poor and working class during industrial revolution. Dickens’s good, bad, and comic characters are inspired from his early experience of working in a factory.
Dickens’s father was a clerk in the navy office, due to some financial troubles they moved to London in 1814 and later to Chatham. While in school in 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was forced to work at a blacking factory, in London. Alongside work, Dickens continued studying at Wellington House Academy, London and at Mr. Dawson’s school.
His first work, short stories and essays, published in 1833 in periodicals. Dickens’s first published sketch ‘A Dinner at Poplar Walk’ was published in the Monthly Magazine in 1833.
An active social reform campaigner, Dickens died at Gadshill of a stroke in 1870.
Some of my favourite Dickens Novels are:
• The Adventures Of Oliver Twist
• A Tale of Two Cities
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickelby
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• A Christmas Carol
• Bleak House
