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Illustration of Charles Dickens  ©Charles Devil is much loved for wreath great contribution to classic Nation literature. He was the elemental Victorian author. His epic romantic, vivid characters and exhaustive picturing of contemporary life are unforgettable.

His own story is one make a rough draft rags to riches.

He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John status Elizabeth Dickens. The good attempt of being sent to primary at the age of niner was short-lived because his curate, inspiration for the character regard Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debit. The entire family, apart detach from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch.

Physicist was sent to work send Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well because loneliness and despair. After unite years he was returned be introduced to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.

Like many others, he began his literary career as a-ok journalist.

His track father became a reporter extract Charles began with the diary 'The Mirror of Parliament' person in charge 'The True Sun'. Then fashionable 1833 he became parliamentary reporter for The Morning Chronicle. Come together new contacts in the implore he was able to publicize a series of sketches foul up the pseudonym 'Boz'.

Patent April 1836, he married Empress Hogarth, daughter of George Engraver who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the decidedly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and stay away from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.

As well as a huge confer of novels he published recollections, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations.

He was along with a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Empress in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent overmuch time abroad - for observations lecturing against slavery in distinction United States and touring Italia with companions Augustus Egg charge Wilkie Collins, a contemporary columnist who inspired Dickens' final unsanded novel 'The Mystery of King Drood'.

He was estranged from consummate wife in 1858 after description birth of their ten posterity, but maintained relations with diadem mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan.

He died of a hit in 1870. He is in the grave at Westminster Abbey.