Charles Dickens and his Emotions: Biography

One of the most influencing writers in English literature is Charles Dickens, in full Charles John Huffam Dickens. He was born on February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England and died on June 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, near Chatham, Kent. He was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest, the terrific and the most admirable person of the Victoria era. His most accomplished novels – Bleak House, Great Expectation, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, and David Copperfield- are works of surpassing genius, thrumming with energy and imagination. Dickens was very popular in his time much of his books appeal to the poor and to rich, to simple and sophisticated, his work were the key point to spread his fame worldwide very quickly. He is now known for facets and aspects of his work, his present position compared to other writers is even higher than anyone would have ever thought or imagine. Among the English writers Dickens is, as he had once called himself, part-jesting and part-serious, “The inimitable”.

Dickens left Portsmouth in infancy. His happiest childhood years were spent in Chatham. His father was well paid, but his extravagance often brought the family to financial problems. In 1824 the family reached bottom. John Dickens was imprisoned for debt when Charles was young. These situations deeply affected Charles. He began to gain sympathetic knowledge of its life that informed his writings. When his father was released from prison, his family improved and made Charles go school possible.

His schooling was interrupted and ended at 15. Later he became a clerk in a solicitor’s office, then a shorthand reporter in the law courts, and finally, a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. These years left him with ...

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...ed and ailing though he was, he remained inventive and adventurous in his final novels. A Tale of Two Cities was an experiment, relying less than before on characterization, dialogue, and humor. An exciting and compact narrative, it lacks too many of his strengths to count among his major works.

But in many respects he was “a sad man” in these later years. He never was tranquil or relaxed. Various old friends were now estranged or dead or for other reasons less available. He began writing another novel and gave a short farewell season of readings in London, ending with the famous speech, “From these garish lights I vanish now for evermore…”—words repeated, less than three months later, on his funeral card. He died suddenly in June 1870 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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