Charles Dickens
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CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Having spent the first three years of his life in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the family moved to London in 1815. He spenttime outdoors, but also read voraciously, especially the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. He spoke, later in life, of his poignant memories of childhood, and of his nearphotographic memory of the people and events, which he used in his writing. His father's brief period as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded Charles a few years' private education at WilliamGiles's School, in Chatham.
He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters. He wrotenumerous highly acclaimed novels including his most autobiographical David Copperfield. Dickens became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mystery of prose in telling of theirlives, and his depictions of the social classes, mores and values of his times. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serializedform, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent hisstories a particular rhythm to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. Someconsidered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight. His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers suchas George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticized it for sentimentality and implausibility. Charles Dickens died in 1870.
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CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Having spent the first three years of his life in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the family moved to London in 1815. He spenttime outdoors, but also read voraciously, especially the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. He spoke, later in life, of his poignant memories of childhood, and of his nearphotographic memory of the people and events, which he used in his writing. His father's brief period as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded Charles a few years' private education at WilliamGiles's School, in Chatham.
He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters. He wrotenumerous highly acclaimed novels including his most autobiographical David Copperfield. Dickens became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mystery of prose in telling of theirlives, and his depictions of the social classes, mores and values of his times. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serializedform, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent hisstories a particular rhythm to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. Someconsidered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight. His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers suchas George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticized it for sentimentality and implausibility. Charles Dickens died in 1870.
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