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Report on the life of Charles Dickens
Title: Report on the life of Charles Dickens
Category: Literature / World Literature
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Report on the life of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was a nineteenth-century novelist who was and still is very popular. He was born in Landport, a region of Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812 (Kyle 1).
Charles Dickens was the son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow. John Dickens was a minor government official who worked in the Navy Pay Office. Through his work there, he met Elizabeth and eventually married her. By 1821, when Charles was four months old, John Dickens could no longer afford the …showed first 75 words of 966 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 966 total…on his tombstone reads: "He was a sympathizer with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." (Huffam) Works Cited Huffam, John. "Dickens, Charles" MS Encarta, 3.0a. Gale Research Inc., 1993.
Kyle, Elisabeth. Great Ambitions, a Story of the Early Years of Charles Dickens, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966. pp. 1 - 13.
Mankowitz, Wolf. Dickens of London, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. pp. 7 - 25.
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