A Biography of Charles Dickens

Title: A Biography of Charles Dickens
Category: Literature / World Literature
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A Biography of Charles Dickens

There is something about Charles Dickens' imaginative power that defies explanation in purely biographical terms. Nevertheless, his biography shows the source of that power and is the best place to begin to define it.         The second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens, Charles was born on February 7, 1812, near Portsmouth on England's south coast. At that time John Dickens was stationed in Portsmouth as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The family was of lower-middle-class …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 789 total…so that at times he must have been nearly intolerable to live with, however agreeable he was as a companion.         In view of his very strenuous life it was not surprising that he died at fifty-eight from a stroke. At his death on June 9, 1870, Dickens was wealthy, immensely popular, and the best novelist the Victorian age produced. He was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, and people mourned his death the world over.

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