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The life of Charles Dickens (BBC)
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Charles Dickens was born on 7th of January 1812.
Charles Dickens was the second child of eight siblings in all.
Only six of Charles Dickens' siblings survived to adulthood; two of them died after having a high fever.
The family moved to London in 1822 because the family finances worsened.
Dickens had to start working at the age of 12 because of the financial problems of his family.
Charles Dickens worked in a blacking factory, labelling bottles for ten hours a day.
His father, John Dickens was eventually sent to a debtors' prison.
John Dickens had finantial problems and he couldn't pay his debts.
Every Saturday, Charles Dickens visited his father at the prison.
In 1827, Dickens began work as a solicitor's clerck.
He began to collect names and characteristic of the people he saw and then, he wrote his novels using those characters.
He began his journalistic career in 1833.
He used to work for the paper by day and on his own work by night.
Charles Dickens began to taste sucess with his first piece of fiction that was published in 1835.
Dickens met Catherine Hogarth in 1835.
Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth got married in 1837, a year of fervent activity in much writing.
When his writing became more popular and his fame more widespread, rumours began to abound of his drunkeness.
Charles and Catherine set soil for America in 1841.
He travelled with his whole family to Italy in the spring of 1844.
Upon his return from Italy, he helped to start and edit a radical newspaper and founded a refuge for homeless women.
Charles Dickens bought Gads Hill at the age of 42.
Gads Hill was situated on the top of a hill and was the house his father had pointed out to him when he was a child.
Gads Hill symbolised the pinnacle of achievement.
Charles Dickens met Ellen Ternan while he was organising a theatrical project.
Ellen Ternan was the leading actress of "The Frozen Deep", a theatrical project by Charles Dickens.
One fateful morning in 1865, while Charles Dickens and Ellen were returning from Paris, their train crashed.
Only at the last minute did he remember to retrieve the final part of "Our Mutual Friend" from the wrecked carriage.
Charles Dickens died at the age of 58 at Ellen's home.
He died on Wednesday 9th June 1860.
Charles Dickens suffered a stroke and died while he was writing a new novel.
He es buried in Westminster Palace.

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