2. Charles John
Huffam Dickens
( 7 February
1812 – 9 June
1870) was an
English writer
and social critic
who is generally
regarded
as the greatest
novelist of the
Victorian period
and the creator
of some of the
world's most
memorable
fictional
characters.
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5. As a child he used to read novels of Tobias
Smollett and Henry Fielding.
6. Google Doodle in celebration
of Dickens’ 200 birthday anniversary
7. He was fascinated by
the idea of a hidden
aristocratic lineage,
such as that
discovered the title
character of Oliver
Twist. It is thought
that he was so
ashamed of his