Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 1812 to 1870
A literary genius
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Victorian writer, journalist, storyteller, editor, conductor, poet, artist
As writer:
30 novels, most famous:
*Sketches of Boz (nickname),1836
*Pickwick Papers (1836)
*Oliver Twist (1837)
*Nicolas Nickleby (1838)
*Old Curiosity shop (1840
*Christmas Carols (1843)
*David Copperfield (1849)
*The Mystery of Edwin Drood, his last unfinished one(1870)
As storyteller:
A diner at poplar walk, published in The Monthly Magazine, his first in 1833.
As editor:
*Household Words
*All the year round
*Harpers new monthly
As conductor/ actor:
*No thoroughfare
*Every man in his humour
*Clari, the opera
Famous characters:
*Uriah Heep
*Artful Dodger
*Scrooge
*Little Nell
*Fagin
*Tiny Tim