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Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)

Active: 1836-1870 in England, Britain, Europe, USA, North America

(Charles John Huffam Dickens)

By Grahame Smith (University of Stirling)

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  • Active In: England, Britain, Europe, USA, North America
  • Born In: England, Britain, Europe
  • Activity: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Journalist, Editor

Life, Works and Times

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Dickens aged 37 in 1849

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth. The family moved to London in 1815, and to Sheerness and then Chatham, both in Kent, in 1817. Chatham remained Dickens’s home until a crucial move back to London in 1823. These changes were necessitated by his father’s job as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, a position which placed the family firmly in the reasonably well-to-do lower middle class. Dickens’s immediate fam

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First published 08 January 2001

Citation: Smith, Grahame. "Charles Dickens". The Literary Encyclopedia. 8 January 2001.
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