Charles Dickens Bio

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Charles Dickens: The Man Who
   Had Great Expectations
  by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
Gad’
Gad’s Hill Place
Childhood
• born on February 7, 1812
• grew up in Chatham, east of London
• lived there until he was ten
• had a happy childhood
• liked to read and pretend to be the
  heroes in his story books
• older sister named Fanny
• went to a respectable school
Charles’ Mother and Father
Charles’




    Mother –    Father –
    Elizabeth    John
    Dickens     Dickens
Childhood
• father (John Dickens) worked hard but
  was always in debt
• had to move family of eight to London
• Charles couldn’t go to school anymore
  because the family couldn’t afford it
• stayed home and help with the house
  and children
• sold belongings to buy food
Warren’
Warren’s Blacking Factory
Childhood
• at age twelve, Charles was forced to
  work in the factory
• worked from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Marshalsea Prison
Childhood
• father was arrested for debt and sent
  to Marshalsea Prison
• the whole family was there except for
  Charles
• he lived alone in a boarding house
• wandered the city at night; felt lonely
• this experience affected him deeply
Wellington House Academy
Childhood
•   father received an inheritance
•   paid off his debts
•   was released from prison
•   Charles was finally allowed to leave
    the factory and go back to school
Charles Dickens as a Young Man
Young Adulthood
• quit school at 15
• worked in various jobs
Maria Beadnell
Young Adulthood
• fell in love with Maria Beadnell, a
  banker’s daughter
• did anything to gain her affection
• Maria’s parents didn’t approve of
  Charles
• sent Maria to Paris
• Charles was heartbroken
Dickens’
Dickens’ London
Young Adulthood
• Dickens would wander the streets of
  London and watch the people
• he began to write stories about the
  people he saw
Depositing the Manuscript:
                    Walk”
“A Dinner at Poplar Walk”
Sketches by Boz
Young Adulthood
• submitted his first story to the Monthly
  Magazine
• the magazine published his first story “A
  Dinner at Poplar Walk”
• he started to write more stories for them
• took the pen name Boz
• published his first book – Sketches by
  Boz
Catherine Hogarth
Young Adulthood

• Dickens married Catherine Hogarth
• they did not have a happy marriage
• they lived together for over twenty-two
  years; stayed married until Dickens’
  death
The Pickwick Papers
Young Adulthood
• at age 25, Charles became extremely
  popular with the publication of The
  Pickwick Papers
• people were crazy about him and his
  stories
Mary Hogarth
Nell             Lucy Manette    Agnes Heep
from             from            from
The Old          A Tale of Two   David
Curiosity Shop   Cities          Copperfield
Young Adulthood
• Catherine’s sister, Mary, came to live
  with them
• Charles had strong feelings for her
• when she died, he was very upset
• based many of his sympathetic female
  story characters on her
Scenes from
movie versions
      of
 Oliver Twist
Young Adulthood
• Charles wrote the book Oliver Twist
• showed people the darker side of life in
  London – the poverty, illness, and
  dangerous living and working conditions
• his writing influenced people and society
• laws to help the poor and to provide
  schools were passed
Fagin from
Oliver Twist
Uriah Heep from David Copperfield
Ebenezer
Scrooge
from A
Christmas
Carol
Miss Havisham
from Great Expectations
Little Nell Nell herher deathbedfrom
     Little and on grandfather
      The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens Before His
   First Trip to America
Older Man
•   Dickens popular in America
•   visited when he was thirty
•   left on January 4, 1842
•   he was mobbed by fans everywhere he
    went
Dickens in America
Portrait Done in Boston
Dickens in America
Older Man
• he liked Boston
• disliked spitting
• resented that people were publishing his
  stories without paying him
• despised slavery
• became very disappointed with the U.S.
Dickens’
Dickens’
Former
Home
Decorated
for the
Holidays
“The
Sparkler of
Albion”
Albion”
A Christmas
   Carol
Older Man
•   Dickens loved to throw big parties
•   would do magic tricks for his guests
•   loved entertaining at Christmas
•   wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843
•   became his most popular work
Maria Beadnell ... again
Dickens Moves into
           Gad’
           Gad’s Hill Place




Dickens was finally was able to buy Gad’s Hill
Place on March 14, 1856.
Dickens in 1867
Charles Dickens Visits
America a Second Time
Older Man
• he began to do dramatic public readings
  of his work
• decided to go back to the U.S. even
  though he was ill
• the people were still excited to see him
• he liked the U.S. much better this time—
slavery had been abolished; the towns
were more civilized
The Swiss Chalet
  at Gad’s Hill
The Couch Dickens Died on at
         Gad’
         Gad’s Hill
Older Man
• he had a stroke which weakened him
• stopped doing public performances
• retired to Gad’s Hill to write and get his
  health back
• was working on a new novel
• had a massive stroke
• died on June 9, 1870
• age fifty-eight
Dickens’
Dickens’ Characters
  Filled his Mind
Notebook Entry #30
1) Write the following sentence: In the biography
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great
Expectations by Diane Stanley and Peter
Vennema, we learn that Charles Dickens was a
very ______(insert character trait word here)
man.

 2) Now, without giving specific details or facts,
write a paragraph that summarizes your
impressions and generalizations about what kind
of man Dickens was based on what you learned in
the book. How would you introduce his life?
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