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A Short Biography of Charles Dickens

Author Name:

Charles Dickens

Born As:

Charles John Huffam Dickens

Other Names:

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA

Born:

7 Feb 1812

Died:

9 Jun 1870




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Selected Works:

Novels:

The Pickwick Papers - Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837
The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839
The Old Curiosity Shop - Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 25, 1840, to February 6, 1841
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February 13, 184l to November 27, 1841

The Christmas books:

A Christmas Carol - 1843
The Chimes - 1844
The Cricket on the Hearth - 1845
The Battle of Life - 1846
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - 1848
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844
Dombey and Son - Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848
David Copperfield - Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850
Bleak House - Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853
Hard Times: For These Times - Weekly serial in Household Words, April 1, 1854, to August 12, 1854
Little Dorrit - Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857
A Tale of Two Cities - Weekly serial in All the Year Round, April 30, 1859, to November 26, 1859
Great Expectations - Weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861
Our Mutual Friend - Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865
No Thoroughfare - 1867 - with Wilkie Collins
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870 Only six of twelve planned numbers completed
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices - 1890

Short story collections:

Sketches by Boz - 1836
Boots at the Holly-tree Inn: And Other Stories - 1858
Reprinted Pieces - 1861
The Haunted House - 1862 - with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Proctor, George Sala and Hesba Setton
The Mudfog Papers - 1880 aka Mudfog and Other Sketches
To Be Read At Dusk - 1898

Selected nonfiction, poetry, and plays:

The Village Coquettes - Plays, 1836
The Fine Old English Gentleman - poetry, 1841
American Notes: For General Circulation - 1842
Pictures from Italy - 1846
The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children - 1849
A Child's History of England - 1853
The Frozen Deep - play, 1857
Speeches, Letters and Sayings - 1870.
                          
Mother  Elizabeth Barrow
Father John Dickens - the second of eight children.
Wife Catherine Thompson Hogarth - ten children:

Charles Culliford Boz Dickens - 6 January 1837–1896. C. C. B. Dickens, later known as Charles Dickens, Jr, editor for All the Year Round, author of the Dickens's Dictionary of London - 1879.

Mary Angela - 6 March 1838 - 1896.
Kate Macready - 29 October 1839 - 1929.
Walter Landor - 8 February 1841 - 1863. Died in India.
Francis Jeffrey - 15 January 1844 - 1886.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson - 28 October 1845 - 1912.
Sydney Smith Haldimand - 18 April 1847 - 1872.
Sir Henry Fielding - 15 January 1849 - 1933.
Dora Annie  - 16 August 1850 - April 1851.

Edward Bulwer Lytton - 13 March 1852–23 January 1902, migrated to Australia, and became a member of the New South Wales state parliament. He died in Moree, New South Wales.