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