Characters made them rich #2: charles dickens - inscription

Charles Dickens was born in Portsea, England, in1812. His vicar was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office,stationed at Portsmouth. Though his job was wellpaid, his minister had a weakness for payments money andspent much of his life in continual bankruptcy.

In 1824, when Charles was just 12 years old, hisfather was sent to debtor's jail. Charles Dickens wassent to a boarding house and given a 12 hour-a-day jobpreparing bottles of shoe buff up in a blackingfactory.

But Dickens' fortunes improved: a impulsive inheritanceallowed his member of the clergy to pay off his debts and he sentCharles to school.

At age fifteen Charles was to be found as a clerk in theoffice of an attorney, a associate of his father's. In hisspare time he calculated hard to be converted into a Parliamentaryreporter.

At age nineteen he entered the parliamentary balcony asa reporter for The Mirror. It was a well paid job and hesoon became known as one of the best shorthandreporters in London.

Dickens began characters fiction at age 21, under the nomde plume of 'Boz'. In 1836, when Dickens was 23, hebegan inscription a chain of short stories (ThePosthumous ID of the Pickwick Club) which appearedin cheap monthly installments. By the age of 24 he hadbecome worldwide famous.

Charles Dickens burst onto the literary scene at aunique jiffy in English history

Until the end of the 18th century, England had been amainly rural society. But from the late 1700's onwards,land holders in progress forcing colonize off their land tomake way for sheep farming.

At the same time the Engineering Revolution wascreating new towns and cities with belching smokestacks and factories that looked-for human resources - the Englishcountryside was emptying and a new urban functioning classwas emerging.

The concentration of citizens in towns and citiescreated a bit that had never existed ahead of - amass audience. Newspapers, Magazines and Newsletterssprang up to cater for this new and increasing demand.

Books were being successive in Newspapers andMagazines - those who couldn't give to buy a bookcould read it in weekly installments. Dickens wrote andpublished most of his novels in this craze - a chapterat a time.

Between 1837 and 1839, Dickens wrote three of his mostfamous novels Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, andNicholas Nickleby.

In the first ten years of his characters career, themanic part of Dickens' manic depression had given himan endless cause of energy and inspiration, but nowhe began to submit to depression.

In the 1840's he ongoing to encounter writer's block. He would spend days safe and sound up in a room, not capable to putwords on paper. He wrote: "Men have been chained tohideous walls and other alien anchors but few haveknown such distress and bitterness. . . as those whohave been bound to Pens. "

Dickens was an enormously brisk man and a compulsivetraveler. He traveled the chunk and coverage of England,Scotland and Wales and also made everyday trips toFrance and Italy. In 1842 he spent six months in America,where he was given the kind of delivery detached formodern day rock stars.

In 1856 Dickens purchased a large residence in Kent,the kind of house he had at all times dreamed of owning.

Although Dickens became wealthy, he never forgothis origins. All through his life he visited thefactories, the slums, the jails and the poor houses. Indeed, his novels were a community commentary on theappalling circumstances of 19th century England. He waswell known for his charity and established requestsfor money where he went.

He is careful by many to have been a genius andthe furthermost English author of the 19th century.

When Dickens died in June 1870, he left an estatevalued at over $US6. 5 million (2001 value).

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