Charles Dickens was an English novelist and social critic in the 19th century. He used his novels, essays, and short stories to shed light on social injustices against the poor and the impact of poverty on society. Some of his most famous works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. Dickens died in 1870 and is considered one of the greatest British novelists.

2.  BIRTH NAME: Charles John Huffham
Dickens
 He was an English writer & a social
critic.
 He is a 19th century writer who used
novels, essays & short stories to bring to
light social injustices against the poor.
 Through his writings, he also reflected
on the extent & impact of poverty on the
society.
 Through his reflections, he presented
powerful social & political views
criticizing the rich & the state.
 He wrote 24 major novels.
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3.  Oliver Twist (1838)
 David Copperfield (1850)
 A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
 Great Expectations (1860)
While Charles Dickens has numerous works I chose to narrow my
focus to a few that provide a true & vivid depiction of how his views
on politics & socialism were reflected in his writings. Also, these
works provide an example of how Dickens characters often overcome
their vicious life & go onto find happiness.
 He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
 Today he is considered one of the greatest British novelist and his
numerous works are now considered classics.
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4.  He was an English novelist & poet.
 He divided his novels & collected short
stories into three classes:
• Novels of character & environment
• Romance & fantasies
• Novels of ingenuity
 Poetry was his first literary love.
 He wrote poems from the 1860s onward
till near his death, completing nearly
thousand poems.
 He is now recognized as one of the
greatest poets of the 20th century.
 In 1898 he published his first volume of
poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of
poems written over a period of 30 years.
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5.  Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
 Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
 The Return of the Native (1878)
 The Mayor of Castorbridge (1886)
 The Woodlanders (1887)
 Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
 Jude the Obscure (1895)
His life can be divided into three phases:-
 The first phase (1840-1870) embraces childhood, adolescence,
apprenticeship, first marriage, early poems, & his unpublished novel.
 The second phase (1871-1897) is marked by intensive writing, which
resulted in the publication of 14 novels & a no. of short stories.
 The third phase (1898-1928), the period of the rising fame, he abandoned
writing novels & returned to poetry.
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6.  He was an English novelist of the 19th
century.
 He was famous for his satirical works ,
particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic
portrait of English Society.
 The basis of all his novels & comic
sketches is his pessimism & realistic
portrayal of English life.
 His novels are supposed always to have a
perfect hero or heroine.
 Therefore all his novels turned into satire,
always have however, the moral lining:
vices are depicted very clearly, but not in
a pretty sight.
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7.  A Shabby Genteel Story (1840)
 The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
 The Book of Snobs (1848)
 Vanity Fair (1848)
 Pendennis (1848)
 The History of Henry Esmond (1849)
 The Newcomes (1854)
 The Rose & the Ring (1854)
 The Virginians (1859)
 The Adventures of Philip (1850)
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8.  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was
often referred to as Mrs.
Gaskell.
 She was an English novelist ,
biographer & short story writer.
 Her greatest books were written
in reaction to the
industrialization of Manchester.
 In January 1853 she published
the controversial “Ruth”, the
story of a seduced seamstress.
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9.  Mary Barton (1848)
 Cranford (1851)
 Ruth (1853)
 North & South (1854)
 My Lady Ludlow (1858)
 A Dark Night’s Work (1863)
 Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)
 Wives & Daughters : An Everyday Story (1864)
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10.  Mary Anne Evans known by her pen
name George Eliot.
 She was a leading Victorian Novelist.
 She also worked as a translator,
journalist, poetist.
 She used a male pen name,she said to
ensure that her works would be taken
seriously.
 After the success of Adam Bede, Eliot
continued to write popular novel for
the next fifteen years.
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11. She wrote 7 major well known novels :-
 Adam Bede (1859)
 The Mill on the Floss (1860)
 Silas Marner (1861)
 Middlemarch (1871)
 Daniel Deronda (1876)
 Romola (1863)
 Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
She died in 1880, Chelsea, England.
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12.  She was a novelist & poet.
 She was the fifth of the six children of
Patrick Bronte.
 She created the breakaway island with
her younger sister Anne survived
poems about this fantasy world show
the influence of Wordsworth, Walter
Scott & Byron.
 Best known for her novel “Wuthering
Heights”. She also wrote over 200
poems.
 At the age of 30 she died from
Tuberculosis in December 1848.
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13.  She was younger sister of Emily Bronte.
 Her famous works are:-
 Agnes Gray (1847)
 The Tenant of Wild Fell Hall (1848)
 A well known Novelist.
 She was third of six children of Patrick Bronte.
 She was only five in 1821 when her mother Maria
died.
 Charlotte’s famous novels:-
 Jane Eyre (1847)
 Shirley (1849)
 Villette (1853)
 The Professor (1857)
 She died at the age of 38 on 31st March 1855
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