Charles Dickens was one of the most famous Victorian authors, known for his social commentary and criticism in novels such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. He drew from his own experiences with poverty and debt as the second of eight children in a family continually struggling financially. Though he had little formal education, his writing brought him great success and fame. His novels are characterized by humor, pathos, and a focus on social issues through vivid portrayals of characters and settings.

1. CharlEs DiCkEns’s
contribution
as a novelist
Name: Baraiya Bhavna P.
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2. About his life
 One of the grand masters of Victorian literature,
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in
Portsea, England.
 The second of eight children of a family
continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens
came to know not only hunger and privation, but
also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison
and the evils of child labor.

3.  A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought
release from the nightmare of prison and "slave"
factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of
two years' formal schooling at Wellington House
Academy.
 He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper
reporter until his Sketches by Boz(1836) and The
Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing
and instant success that was to be his for the
remainder of his life.

4. DiCkEns’s major work
 Sketches by Boz(1836)
A series dealing with London life.
 The Pickwick Papers(1836)
The first novel by Charles Dickens.
Majority of the characters are male or that most of the women are
treated unsympathetically.
The masculinity of the novel rests mainly in the finesse and accuracy of
Dickens’s portrayal of male relationships.
Women are shown either as sweet young objects of romance or as
threatening middle-aged predators.

5.  Oliver Twist(1837)
Oliver Twist, subtitled The Paris Boy’s Progress.
It is the second novel by Dickens, Published by
Richard Bentley in 1838.
Oliver notable for Dickens’s unromantic portrayal of
criminals and their sordid lives.
The book exposed the cruel treatment of many a
waif-child in London, which increased international
concern in what is sometimes known as “The Great
London Waif Crisis”: the large number of orphans in
London in the Dickens’s era.
Social novel.
Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time.

6.  Nicholas Nickleby(1838)
 The Old Curiosity Shop(1840)
 Barnaby Rudge(1841)
 American Notes(1842)
 Martin Chuzzlewit(1843)
 A Christmas Carol(1843)
 Dombey and Son(1846)
 David Copperfield
 Bleak House(1852)
 Hard Times(1854)
 Little Dorrit(1855)
 A Tale of Two Cities(1859)
 Great Expactations(1860)
 Our Mutual Friend(1864)

7. Features of his novel
 Their Popularity.
 His interest in Social Reformer.
 His Imagination.
 His humour and Pathos.
 His mannerisms
 In time his style