Ch. Dickens "A tale of two cities"

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office. He had a poor head for finances, and in 1824 found himself imprisoned for debt. His wife and children, with the exception of Charles, who was put to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory, joined him in the Marshalsea Prison. When the family finances were put at least partly to rights and his father was released, the twelve-year-old Dickens, already scarred psychologically by the experience, was further wounded by his mother’s insistence, that he continue to work at the factory. But the dark secret became a source both of creative energy and of the preoccupation with the themes of alienation and betrayal which would emerge, most notability, in his novels “David Copperfield” and in “Great Expectations”. In 1829 he became a free-lance reporter at Doctor’s Commons Courts, and in 1830 he met and fell in love with Maria Beadnell, the daughter of a banker. By 1832 he had become a very successful shorthand reporter for Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons, and began work as a reporter for a news paper. In 1834, still a newspaper reporter, he adopted the soon to be famous pseudonym ‘Boz’. His impecunious father was once again arrested for debt, and Charles, much to his chagrin, was forced to come to his aid. Later in his life both of his parents and his brothers were frequently after him for money. Dickens embarked on a full-time career as a novelist, producing work of increasing complexity at an incredible rate, although he continued, as well, his journalistic and editorial activities. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through their own words. Dickens’s career as a writer of fiction started in...

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