Charles Jonh Huffam Dickens

1812 - 2012

Charles Jonh Huffan Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7th 1.812. He died in Gads Hill Place, England on June 9th 1.870.

Charles went to school until he was 9 years old.

His father was an office worker in the Portsmouts Navy and his mother cared of them.

Charles Jonh started working when he was 12 years old in a shoes polish factory. He earned 6 schilling a week.

I liked reading adventure books of Tomes Jones and Henry Fielding and the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.

He was a reporter, a journalist, an editor, a politician and a writer. Charles worked in Morning Chronicle, True Sun and Doctors Commons.

Charles Jonh married Catherine Thompson. They had ten children, their names were: Charles, Mary, Kate, Walter, Francis, Alfred, Sidney, Henry, Dora and Edward. He published novels that became famous. Such as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby and others.

Charles died of a sickness in his brain and heart. He didnt want to be buried in Rochester Cathedral. The family buried him in The corner of the poets