charles dickens


Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, England, February 7, 1812 - Gads Hill Place, England, June 9, 1870) was a famous English novelist, one of the most famous in world literature, and the chief of the Victorian era . He was master of narrative genre, which printed a certain dose of humor and irony, while practicing a sharp social criticism. In his work are the descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined. Sometimes used the pseudonym Boz.
Subsequent reviews such as George G. Gissing and K. Chesterton, championed and cheered his mastery of the English language as unique, and memorable characters, and largely deep social sensitivity. However, it also received criticism from readers best-George Henry Lewes, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, among them-which blamed certain defects to their works, as effusive sentimentality, unrealistic events and characters grotescos.1
His novels and short stories enjoyed great popularity in the writer's life, and still are published continuously. Dickens wrote serialized novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, for the simple reason that not everyone had the financial resources to buy a book, and every new installment of their stories was awaited with great enthusiasm for their readers, national and international. Dickens was and is still revered as a literary idol worldwide



Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport district, belonging to the city of Portsmouth, son of John Dickens (1786-1851), clerk of the Paymaster of the Navy in the arsenal of Portsmouth Harbour, and its wife Elizabeth Barrow (1789-1863). In 1814, the family moved to London, Somerset House, at number ten on Norfolk Street. When the future writer was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. His mother was middle class and his father always dragged debts due to his excessive inclination to waste. Charles received no education until the age of nine years, which later critics reproached him, considering his training in excess self. At this age, after attending a school in Rome Lane, studied culture in the school of William Gile, an Oxford graduate. He spent his time away from home, reading voraciously. He showed a particular fondness for the picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. This would be his favorite writer. I also read with relish adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. In 1823, he lived with his family in London, at number 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town, which was then one of the poorest suburbs of the city. Although his early years seem to have been an idyllic time, he was described as a "very young child and not particularly care." We also talk about his extreme pathos and his photographic memory of people and events that helped move the reality ficción.3
His life changed when his father was deeply denounced by defaulting on their debts and imprisoned in the Marshalsea debtors prison. Most of the family moved to live with Mr. Dickens to jail, then possibility provided by law, which allowed the family to share his cell delinquent. Charles was welcomed in a house of Little College Street, run by Mrs. Roylance and went on Sunday to visit her father in prison.