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1812 – 1870 · Landport
Charles Dickens
How a factory child grew up to become the storyteller of a whole country.
Born Landport
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children. His childhood shaped everything he wrote. When he was twelve, his father was thrown into a debtors' prison, and young Charles was sent to paste labels on jars in a grimy shoe-polish factory. He never forgot the shame and the cold. That memory fed his lifelong anger at how the poor were treated.
Books on the Atlas
- Great Expectations 1861
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